sulphureous
/sʌlˈfjʊərɪəs
/(also sulfureous)
adjective
Of, like, or containing sulphur.According to Hugh Murray, in his biography Dr Evelyn's York, he left London shrouded in ‘a pea soup fog, characteristic of the capital city with its myriads of sulphureous and coal-burning fires.’...
- Queen Victoria loved the sulfureous saline water so much she gave the town a royal prefix.
- View a former old coffee plantation in the Canada del Infierno and the sulfureous springs of the Bayate river.
Origin
Early 16th century: from Latin sulphureus (from sulphur) + -ous.
- parasitologist
- parasitology
- parasitophorous
- parasitopolis
- para-ski
- para-skier
- para-skiing
- parasol
- parasol ant
- parasoled
- parasol fern
- parasolled
- parasol mushroom
- parasol pine
- parasol plant
- parasol skirt
- parasomnia
- parasorbic
- parasphenoid
- parasphenoidal
- paraspinal
- parastas
- parastatal
- parastate
- parasternal