porraceous
/pɔːˈɹeɪʃəs/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Resembling the leek in colour; greenish.
Example Sentences
- "If the lesser Intestines be wounded, he will be troubled with poraceous Vomiting, and what he eats or drinks will pass out of his Wound in less than half an hour[.]"
- "During the night she vomited porraceous matter."
- "[B]ut [I] had to say that the "foliage" was "emerald" or indeed (I discovered this in a Victorian book of verse by a gentleman called Bradford) that the "verdure" was "porraceous"."
- "My pignoration, see, is this smaragd, of porraceous hue. Bless my tripudiation, stellify my verses."
Etymology
From Latin porrāceus, from porrum, porrus (“a leek”).
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: porrāceus
Inflected Forms
more porraceous (comparative)
most porraceous (superlative)