pruinose
adjective
pruinose is an adjective meaning “Having a very fine whitish powder (bloom) on a surface” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-R-U-I-N-O-S-E, and it appears about once in every 59 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does pruinose mean?
adjective
- 1
Having a very fine whitish powder (bloom) on a surface.
- 2
Covered with a very fine whitish layer of wax particles.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of pruinose
- more pruinose comparative
- most pruinose superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is pruinose?
Pruinose appears about once in every 59 million words in written English, the 240,237th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Pruinose in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense (botany):
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | bereift |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does pruinose come from?
Latin pruīnōsus, from pruīna.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).