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Definition: PRUINOSE |
PRUINOSEAdjective1. Frosty; covered with fine scales, hairs, dust, bloom, or the like, so as to give the appearance of frost. |
Etymology: Pruinose \Pru"i*nose`\, adjective. [Latin expression pruinosus, from pruina hoarfrost.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Science | Surface covered with pruina (especially of apothecia). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: PRUINOSE |
| English words defined with "PRUINOSE": Pruinate, Pruinous. (references) |
| 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 cubierto de velo (hoary). (various references) pruinös (hoary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | pruinosus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
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. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Translations: Modern 4. Translations: Ancient | 5. Anagrams 6. Bibliography |
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