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Covered with foam
Answer for the clue "Covered with foam ", 5 letters:
spumy
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. covered with or resembling small bubbles as from being agitated by beating or heating; "the bubbling candy mixture"; "a cup of foaming cocoa"; "frothy milkshakes"; "frothy waves"; "spumy surf" [syn: bubbling , foaming , foamy , frothing , spumous , ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. frothy, emitting froth or spume
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Spumous \Spum"ous\ (sp[=u]m"[u^]s), Spumy \Spum"y\ (sp[=u]m"[y^]), a. [L. spumosus, fr. spuma foam: cf. F. spumeux.] Consisting of, containing, or covered with, froth, scum, or foam; frothy; foamy. The spumous and florid state of the blood. --Arbuthnot. ...
Usage examples of spumy.
Like leaden pillows, they beat him senseless and scattered a million grey spumy feathers across the heaving sea.
From this a spumy vortex now towered, as if either this air were draining down it, or the lower air were cycloning out of it.
Lennard saw what seemed to him like an illimitable sea of huge spumy billows and tumbling masses of foam, which seemed to roll and break over each other without sound.