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# sulphurous

adjective

«sulphurous» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

Sulphurous means smelling of sulphur, a yellow substance with a strong, rotten-egg smell, or full of its fumes. (Spelt sulfurous in America.) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sulphurous/#m1)

### In the lessons

in stories, the bad-smelling yellow air of a cave, a pit or a dragon's breath

### Examples

- The volcano gave off sulphurous fumes. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sulphurous/#x1)
- The air in the cave was sulphurous. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sulphurous/#x2)
- Clouds of sulphurous steam rose from the pool. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sulphurous/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «sulphurous» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sulphurous/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«sulphurous» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/sulphurous.html) on Mova free.