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sulphureous

/ sʌlˈfjʊərɪəs /

adjective

  1. another word for sulphurous
  2. of the yellow colour of sulphur
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • sulˈphureousness, noun
  • sulˈphureously, adverb
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Example Sentences

The underside of the lower wings are sulphureous, with very fine undulating or rather incontinuous lines of a yellowish colour.

Water imbibes about twice its bulk of this kind of air, and it is then the same thing with the sulphureous waters of Harrowgate.

There was a volcanic lake near Cumae called Avernus, whose waters gave out sulphureous vapours.

The hills bordering upon the lake are said to abound with this sort of sulphureous stone.

All I can recollect is, that an immense blaze of light was succeeded by an overpowering sulphureous smell,—then a dead silence.

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