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Etymology

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From Latin puls (meal, porridge) +‎ -aceous.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /pʌlˈteɪʃəs/
  • Hyphenation: pul‧ta‧ceous

Adjective

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pultaceous (comparative more pultaceous, superlative most pultaceous)

  1. Macerated; softened; nearly fluid.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for pultaceous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)