vitrescent
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- Rhymes: -ɛsənt
Adjective edit
vitrescent (comparative more vitrescent, superlative most vitrescent)
- Becoming glass; glassy, vitreous.
- 1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, page 14:
- “You from deep cauldrons and unmeasured caves / Blow flaming airs, or pour vitrescent waves […] .”