ignifluous

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/ɪɡˈnɪf.lu.əs/

adjective

Flowing with fire.

OriginLatin ignifluus →
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Meanings

adjectiveignifluous (not comparable)
  1. not comparableobsoleteFlowing with fire.

    This process of filling up continued till the latter part of May 1840, when, as many natives testify, the whole area of the crater became one entire sea of ignifluous matter

    1840, William T. Brigham, Notes on the Volcanoes of the Hawaiian Islands

Origin

  1. Latinignifluus
  2. Englishignifluous

From Latin ignifluus, from ignis (“fire”) + fluere (“to flow”). By surface analysis, igni- + Latin flu- + -ous.

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Translations

Latin ignifluus
  • ignifluusflowing with fire
Spanish ignífluo
  • ignífluoflowing with fire

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

fuliginous
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APA

ignifluous. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ignifluous

MLA

“ignifluous.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ignifluous. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “ignifluous,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ignifluous.

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