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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

unevaporable en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + evaporable.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Not evaporable.
    • Cunningly masked hitherto, by the green tapestry of the interlacing leaves, a terrific towering palisade of dark mossy massiness confronted you; and, trickling with unevaporable moisture, distilled upon you from its beetling brow slow thunder-showers of water-drops, chill as the last dews of death. 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities: