poculent
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Some of these herbs, which are not esculent, are notwithstanding poculent; as hops and broom."
- "[…] the minute attention which the first physicians paid to the esculents and poculents of their patients […]"
- "The use of unguents acts as raiment against heat and cold by preventing profuse perspiration and evaporation; it is the more necessary in a land where extreme lassitude and thirst necessitate a great consumption of poculents."
- "The fresh produce, moreover, has few charms as a poculent amongst barbarous and milk-drinking races: the Arabs and the Portuguese in Africa avoid it after the sun is high, believing it to increase bile, and eventually to cause fever […]"
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: poculentus