sulphureous

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English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin sulphureus, sulfureus.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

sulphureous (comparative more sulphureous, superlative most sulphureous)

  1. (British spelling, now rare) Sulphurous.
    • 1839, Edgar Allan Poe, ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’:
      An excited and highly distempered ideality threw a sulphureous lustre over all.

Derived terms

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