porraceous

English

Etymology

From Latin porrāceus, from porrum, porrus (“a leek”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔːˈɹeɪʃəs/

Adjective

porraceous (comparative more porraceous, superlative most porraceous)

1. (originally medicine now rare) Resembling the leek in colour; greenish.
   • 1676, Richard Wiseman, Several Chirurgical Treatises, page 432:

     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[.]

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

     During the night she vomited porraceous matter.

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

     [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".

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

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

   porraceous:  

Synonyms

• leek-green
• prasine
• prasinous

References

• “porraceous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.