Noun: polverine
| Singular | polverine |
| Plural | polverines |
Sample Sentences
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Mosquitoes and polverines, little midges so small as to be scarcely visible, rose in a cloud from the water and settled on our hands and faces. [1946, Kenneth Walker, I talk of dreams: an experiment in autobiography, page 145:]
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The polverines, however, were so small and numerous that even though we massacred fifty with a slap it seemed to make no difference to the hazy black cloud which hung around our heads. [1980, David Attenborough, The Zoo Quest Expeditions: Travels in Guyana, Indonesia, and Paraguay, →ISBN:]
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But all were more tolerable than those polverines. [1991, MS Aufdemberge, The Mission Efforts of the Slovak Evangelical Lutheran Synod in the Chaco Province of Argentina:]
Nouns inflected like polverine
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Italian polverino, from Latin pulvis (“dust”). Doublet of pulvinus. See: Italian Nouns '
polverino', Latin Nouns '
pulvis'.