spume

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spume /spjuːm/ noun [uncountable]  literaryHEO the mass of bubbles that forms on the top of waves when the sea is rough 〔海浪的〕泡沫，浮沫 SYN foam

Examples from the Corpus

spume• As further proof of this there was a continuous drift of wind-blown spume shooting over us like blobs of candy floss.• The ridges are waves, the clouds spume, the houses small schools of square fish.• The wind spun the sea into feathers of spume, the rain solid as it struck Mariana in the face.• Intense though Emily Dickinson was, Emily had never experienced the spume and spray of arterial blood.Origin spume (1300-1400) Old French Latin spuma

spume nounChinese  

mass top on the that of Corpus the bubbles forms

spume
spume /spjuːm/ noun [uncountable]literary the mass of bubbles that forms on the top of waves when the sea is rough
   SYN  foam

spumeBrE /spjuːm/ 🔊NAmE /spjuːm/ 🔊 noun [uncountable] (literary) the mass of white bubbles that forms in waves when the sea is rough （海浪的）泡沫 SYN foam