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# sulphurous

«sulphurous» in Mova's school dictionary: **smelling of sulphur, a yellow substance with a strong…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sulphurous/#m1)

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

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «sulphurous» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sulphurous/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.