erumpent, a.
(ɪˈrʌmpənt)
[ad. L. ērumpentem, pr. pple. of ērumpĕre, f. ē out + rumpĕre to burst forth.]
That bursts forth.
| 1650 Bulwer Anthropomet. 131 The Masculine..faculty..either erumpent, and progredient, or consumed. 1857 Berkeley Cryptog. Bot. 313 This genus..seems to me essentially innato-erumpent. 1871 Cooke Fungi (1875) 197 The erumpent ostiola of the perithecia of Melanconis stilbostoma. |