vaporescent

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

vapor +‎ -escent

Adjective

vaporescent (comparative more vaporescent, superlative most vaporescent)

  1. (rare) Becoming vaporous; producing or emitting vapor.
    • 1993, Donald Antrim, Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World, →ISBN (2012 Macmillan edition), p. 35 (Google preview):
      I sipped instant decaf and peered into the freezer at vaporescent packages of food piled in a heap atop the collected remains of Jim Kunkel.

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