| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | pum·ice |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  p m  s |
| NOUN: | A light, porous, glassy lava, used in solid form as an abrasive and in powdered form as a polish and an abrasive. | | TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: pum·iced, pum·ic·ing, pum·ic·es
To clean, polish, or smooth with pumice. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English, from Anglo-Norman pomis, from Late Latin p mex, from Latin p mex, alteration of spma, foam. | | OTHER FORMS: | pu·miceous (py -msh s, p-) —ADJECTIVE
pumic·er —NOUN
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