porraceous

comparative more porraceous · superlative most porraceous

1. Resembling the leek in colour; greenish.

   During the night she vomited porraceous matter.

   1914, Georges Dieulafoy, A Text-Book of Medicine, page 880

   3 more examples

   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[.]

   1676, Richard Wiseman, Several Chirurgical Treatises, page 432

   [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".

   1956, Paul Dehn, For Love and Money, page 79

   My pignoration, see, is this smaragd, of porraceous hue. Bless my tripudiation, stellify my verses.

   1986, Les Murray, editor, The New Oxford Book of Australian Verse, page 214

   Synonyms: leek-green, prasine, prasinous