spumescent

comparative more spumescent · superlative most spumescent

1. rareResembling froth or foam; foaming.

   Then she screamed as a jet of spumescent gore slopped across the front of the paralysed fabric.

   2008, Peter F. Hamilton, The Reality Dysfunction, →ISBN

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   The snowfall had changed again, the flakes larger now and less insistent; they had a buoyant and spumescent quality.

   1957, John Bell Clayton, The Strangers Were There: Selected Stories, Macmillan, page 79

   His eyes burned black with the intensity of their gaze over the hidden ravine below; over the thin, white waterfall, spumescent, blown into mist.

   1993, Hjalmar Thesen, The Way Back: A Novel, →ISBN, page 146

   Synonyms: fizzy, foamy, frothy