erumpent
Americanadjective
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bursting forth.
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(of fungi or algae) prominent; projecting from or bursting through host tissue.
adjective
Etymology
Origin of erumpent
First recorded in 1640–50; from Latin ērumpent- (stem of ērumpēns ), present participle of ērumpere, equivalent to ē- e- 1 + rumpere “to break”; see -ent
Example Sentences
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Shivaree, chthonian, erumpent, tintinnabulation, exonumia, requiescat, deipnosophist, omphaloskepsis, horripilation, deliquesce, apopemptic.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 26, 2021
A: With the erumpent, we had some of the guys who worked on "War Horse" make a huge puppet that I rehearsed with for a few weeks.
From Reuters • Nov. 14, 2016
Some grew in same manner, erumpent from thin bark and the broken bark forms a kind of cup at the base of the stroma, others on the naked, hard wood and grew more compact.
From Synopsis of Some Genera of the Large Pyrenomycetes Camilla, Thamnomyces, Engleromyces by Lloyd, C. G.
The latter specimens grew erumpent from thin bark, and the broken bark forms a kind of cup at the base of the stroma.
From Synopsis of Some Genera of the Large Pyrenomycetes Camilla, Thamnomyces, Engleromyces by Lloyd, C. G.
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