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Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word EFFUSE
EFFUSE
Definitions of EFFUSE
- Poured out freely; profuse.
- Disposed to pour out freely; prodigal.
- (botany) Spreading loosely, especially on one side.
- (zoology) Having the lips, or edges, of the aperture abruptly spreading, as in certain shells.
- (transitive) To emit; to give off.
- (figuratively) To gush; to be excitedly talkative and enthusiastic about something.
- (intransitive) To pour out like a stream or freely; to cause to exude; to shed.
- (intransitive) To leak out through a small hole.
- (obsolete) effusion; loss
Number of letters
6
Is palindrome
No
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Examples of Using EFFUSE in a Sentence
- Seismicity during 1-7 September indicated lava from the SW side of Main Crater (S crater) continued to effuse but at a decreased rate, and that the number of earthquakes indicating avalanches had also decreased, according to Vulcanological Survey of Indonesia.
- Hepatization is conversion into a substance resembling the liver; a state of the lungs when gorged with effuse matter, so that they are no longer pervious to the air.
- Psilolechiaceae is a monogeneric family of crustose lichens with effuse, ecorticate (lacking a cortex), leprose thalli formed by goniocysts (aggregations of photobiont cells surrounded by short-celled hyphae) containing Trebouxia or stichococcoid algae.
- The conidial heads are effuse (spread out), while the stalks of the conidiophores are hyaline (translucent), smooth, and measure up to 500 μm.
- Heiomasia species have pale green to whitish thalli that are effuse (spread out) and byssoid (wispy, like cotton), and often have a white prothallus.
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