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PRUINOSE

Definition: PRUINOSE

PRUINOSE

Adjective

1. Frosty; covered with fine scales, hairs, dust, bloom, or the like, so as to give the appearance of frost.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Pruinose \Pru"i*nose`\, adjective. [Latin expression pruinosus, from pruina hoarfrost.]. (Websters 1913)


Specialty Definition: PRUINOSE

DomainDefinition

Science

Surface covered with pruina (especially of apothecia). (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms within Context: PRUINOSE

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Cold

Icy, glacial, frosty, freezing, pruinose, wintry, brumal, hibernal, boreal, arctic, Siberian, hyemal; hyperborean, hyperboreal; icebound; frozen out.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: PRUINOSE

English words defined with "PRUINOSE": Pruinate, Pruinous. (references)

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Modern Translation: PRUINOSE

Language Translations for "PRUINOSE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

dugget (hoary). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

berijpt (frosted, hoary). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

härmäinen (hoary). (various references)

   

French

  

pruineux. (various references)

   

German

  

bereift (frosted, frosty). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

μαλλιαρός (hairy, woolly). (various references)

   

Italian

  

pruinoso (hoary), brinato (rimy). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

uinosepray

   

Spanish

  

cubierto de velo (hoary). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

pruinös (hoary). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: PRUINOSE

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

pruinosus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: PRUINOSE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-i-n-o-p-r-s-u"

-1 letter: inpours, orpines, purines, soupier, uprisen, urinose.

-2 letters: inpour, insure, inures, irones, nosier, opines, orpine, orpins, person, poiser, ponies, poseur, prions, prison, prunes, puisne, punier, purine, purins, repins, ripens, rouens, rusine, senior, sniper, spinor, supine, unripe, unrips, uprise, uprose, urines, ursine.

-3 letters: eosin, euros, inure, irone, irons, noirs, noise, noris, nurse, opens, opine, opsin.

 Words containing the letters "e-i-n-o-p-r-s-u"
 

+1 letter: eruptions, penurious, perfusion, prelusion, preunions, repulsion.

 

+2 letters: ibuprofens, importunes, percussion, perfusions, perigynous, pernicious, persuasion, porcupines, preclusion, prelusions, proscenium, purloiners, repulsions, resumption, subreption, supersonic, supertonic.

 

+3 letters: aponeurosis, euphoriants, importuners, neutrophils, outpressing, outsprinted, oversupping, penuriously, percussions, peritoneums, persecution, persuasions, precautions, preclusions, prefocusing, presumption, pretentious, prosceniums, prosecuting, prosecution, reputations, resprouting, resumptions, serpiginous, springhouse, subreptions, supernation, superposing, supersonics, supertonics, supervision, suppression.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Translations: Ancient
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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