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spumespume /spjuːm/ noun [uncountable] spumeOrigin: 1300-1400 Old French, Latin spuma - As further proof of this there was a continuous drift of wind-blown spume shooting over us like blobs of candy floss.
- Intense though Emily Dickinson was, Emily had never experienced the spume and spray of arterial blood.
- The ridges are waves, the clouds spume, the houses small schools of square fish.
- The wind spun the sea into feathers of spume, the rain solid as it struck Mariana in the face.
► Oceanographybarrier reef, nounbed, nounchart, verbcontinental shelf, nouncoral reef, nouncross-current, nouncurrent, nounebb, nounebb, verbfreshwater, adjectivehigh water mark, nouniceberg, nounice cap, nounice pack, nounice sheet, nounlow water mark, nounmarine, adjectivemaritime, adjectiveocean, nounpack ice, nounrock pool, nounroller, nounsaltwater, adjectivesandbank, nounsand bar, nounsea, nounsediment, nounsedimentary, adjectiveshoal, nounsound, verbsoundings, nounspray, nounspring tide, nounspume, nounstrait, nounstrength, nounsubmarine, adjectivesurf, nountidal, adjectivetidal wave, nountide, nountide-mark, nountide pool, nountidewater, nountrench, nountsunami, nounundersea, adjectiveundertow, nounwave, noun literary the mass of bubbles that forms on the top of waves when the sea is rough SYN foam |