a. [ad. L. ērumpent-em, pr. pple. of ērumpĕre, f. ē out + rumpĕre to burst forth.] That bursts forth.
1650. Bulwer, Anthropomet., 131. The Masculine generative faculty; and of that either erumpent, and progredient, or consumed.
1857. Berkeley, Cryptog. Bot., 313. This genus … seems to me essentially innato-erumpent.
1871. Cooke, Fungi (1875), 197. The erumpent ostiola of the perithecia of Melanconis stilbostoma.
