gemmeous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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adj

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"They were not the Europeans alone, who were ſtruck with its [the honeysucker’s] great beauty; the natives of America, to whom it was ſo familiar, were affected with its gemmeous appearance, and beſtowed on it titles expreſſive of its reſplendent colors."

From Latin gemmeus. See gem.

more gemmeous (comparative) most gemmeous (superlative)

gemmeous dragonet

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