spumose, a. rare.
(spjuːˈməʊs)
[ad. L. spūmōs-us (hence It. spumoso, Sp. and Pg. espumoso), f. spūma spume n.]
= spumous a.
| 1576 G. Baker Gesner's Jewel of Health 222 b, At any tyme..may this water be drawne, and converted after into a spumose substaunce. 1683 Ray Corr. (1848) 132 A little spike of bright purple or red flowers, which afterwards turned to spumose vesicles. 1856–8 W. Clark Van der Hoeven's Zool. I. 798 A vesicular or spumose organ adhering to foot. |