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adjective
Definitions:
- caustic, corrosive, burning
- [~ spuma => lye with which Germans colored hair]
- Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
- Area: Science, Philosophy, Mathematics, Units/Measures
- Geography: All or none
- Frequency: Appears only in Pliny’s “Natural History”
- Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)