Porraceous
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /pɔːˈɹeɪʃəs/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Porraceous is an adjective meaning (originally medicine now rare) Resembling the leek in colour; greenish.
Meaning
(originally medicine now rare) Resembling the leek in colour; greenish.
Example Sentences
During the night she vomited porraceous matter.
My pignoration, see, is this smaragd, of porraceous hue. Bless my tripudiation, stellify my verses.
If the lesser Intestines be wounded, he will be troubled with poraceous Vomiting, and what he eats or drinks will pass out of his Wound in less than half an hour[.]
[B]ut [I] had to say that the "foliage" was "emerald" or indeed (I discovered this in a Victorian book of verse by a gentleman called Bradford) that the "verdure" was "porraceous".
Synonyms for porraceous
Depending on context, synonyms include leek-green, prasine, prasinous.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include leekish, leek-green, leeklike, roseal, pruney, parsleylike.
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