aquose

From Latin aquosus (“watery”), from aqua. See aqua, aqueous.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˈkwəʊs/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /əˈkwoʊs/
• Rhymes: -əʊs
• Hyphenation: a‧quose

aquose (comparative more aquose, superlative most aquose)

1. (obsolete) watery; aqueous
   • 1661, Robert Lovell, Sive panzoologicomineralogia:

     The cachexy, which is a diffusion of the whole body into an aquose and tumid softnesse […]

• “aquose”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

aquōse

1. vocative masculine singular of aquōsus