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/pɔːˈɹeɪʃəs/ · adjective
(originally medicine now rare) Resembling the leek in colour; greenish..
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[.]
During the night she vomited porraceous matter.
[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".
My pignoration, see, is this smaragd, of porraceous hue. Bless my tripudiation, stellify my verses.
Use porraceous when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Porraceous means (originally medicine now rare) Resembling the leek in colour; greenish..
Common synonyms include leek-green, prasine, prasinous.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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[.]
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