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erumpent

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e⋅rum⋅pent

  [i-ruhm-puhnt]
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–adjective
1. bursting forth.
2. (of fungi or algae) prominent; projecting from or bursting through host tissue.
Origin:
1640–50; < L ērumpent- (s. of ērumpēns), prp. of ērumpere, equiv. to ē- e- + rumpere to break; see -ent
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e·rum·pent   (ĭ-rŭm'pənt)   
adj.  Bursting through or as if through a surface or covering.

[Latin ērumpēns, ērumpent-, present participle of ērumpere, to burst out; see erupt.]
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