effervescive

English

Etymology

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -ɛsɪv

Adjective

effervescive (comparative more effervescive, superlative most effervescive)

Tending to produce effervescence.
- 1859, Laurens Perseus Hickok, Human Mind as Given in Consciousness:
  an effervescive force

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “effervescive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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