Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Producing smoke.
Wiktionary
- adj. Producing smoke.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Producing smoke.
Etymologies
- Latin fumifer; fumus smoke + ferre to bear. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Brewer, that hopes to draw as much Drink from a quarter of this, as he does from pale or amber sorts: This Malt by some is thought to occasion the Gravel and Stone, besides what is commonly called the Heart-burn; and is by its steely nature less nourishing than the pale or amber Malts, being very much impregnated with the fiery fumiferous Particles of the”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘fumiferous’.
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word set11
slipstreaming, derailleur, sapwood, obovate, wickerwork, rupestrine, orthographical, fructified, dynamometer, stolidity, shadow puppeting, hyperpolyglot and 63 more...
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The Triumph of Bullshit
being words from the poem of the same name by T.S. Eliot
etiolated, alembicated, orotund, tasteless, fantastical, monotonous, crotchety, constipated, impotent, galamatias, affected, imitated and 26 more...
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herotuesday's Words
butyraceous, thrasonical, turgid, ululate, irenic, punctilio, discombobulate, ecdysiast, formicate, favonian, agnate, erubescence and 614 more...
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reesetee He/she could frolic in the autumn mist with Puff. ;-) Sep 22, 2007
colleen brilliant! Sep 22, 2007
kad and 'fumi' would be a great nickname for a dragon :) Sep 22, 2007
herotuesday If I had a pet dragon, this would absolutely be its name. Sep 22, 2007