a. rare. [ad. L. spūmōs-us (hence It. spumoso, Sp. and Pg. espumoso), f. spūma SPUME sb.] = SPUMOUS a.
1576. G. Baker, trans. Gesner’s Jewell of Health, 222 b. At any tyme … may this water be drawne, and converted after into a spumose substaunce.
1683. Ray, Corr. (1848), 132. A little spike of bright purple or red flowers, which afterwards turned to spumose vesicles.
1856–8. W. Clark, Van der Hoeven’s Zool., I. 798. A vesicular or spumose organ adhering to foot.
