Word of the day: erumpent

Lovely word, isn’t it? I came across it for the first time recently on a television programme to do with the countryside.

It means ‘bursting forth’. An actual example: “The sun spun aloft, an erumpent orb of balling glory thrilling the blue sky with its brilliance.”


 




XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <s> <strike> <strong>