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Meaning of porraceous | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2
/pɔːˈɹeɪʃəs/

Definitions

Resembling the leek in colour; greenish.

Examples

“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[.]”
“During the night she vomited porraceous matter.”
“[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".”
“My pignoration, see, is this smaragd, of porraceous hue. Bless my tripudiation, stellify my verses.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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