Adjective: tremellose
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more tremellose |
| Superlative | most tremellose |
Sample Sentences
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Simple, solitary, somewhat tremellose, yellow; clubs incrassated, obtuse, compressed; stem round. [1871, Mordecai Cubitt Cooke, “Clavariei”, in Handbook of British Fungi, volume 1, 998. Calocera glossoides, page 340:]
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'Where did you pick up this little souvenir?' he asked, turning to stare at Craig, who was in a state of sudden tremellose agitation, his hands shaking, his head quivering above his shoulders as though his neck muscles had ceased their normal supporting function. [1969, Leonard Gribble, Cash My Chips, Croupier:]
Adjectives inflected like tremellose
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Latin tremulus (“shaking; trembling; quivering”) + -ose. See also English tremulous. See: Latin Adjectives '
tremulus', English Adjectives '
tremulous'.