Definitions for fugacious

fugacious fu·ga·cious

Spelling: [fyoo-gey-shuh s]
IPA: /fyuˈgeɪ ʃəs/

Fugacious is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 212 anagrams from letters in fugacious (acfgiosuu).

Definitions for fugacious

adjective

  1. fleeting; transitory:
  2. Botany. falling or fading early.

Origin of fugacious

1625-35; Latin fugāci- (stem of fugāx apt to flee, fleet, derivative of fugere to flee + -ous

Examples for fugacious

Hymenophore continuous with the stem, veil woven into a fugacious web, which adheres to the margin of the pileus.

Their happy day, however, is soon over; their fugacious petals shrivel in three or four days.

Honours and dignities are transient, beauty and riches frail and fugacious, to a proverb.

Nobody, it appeared, was alert enough to espy that fugacious shadow on the fire-ladder.

Petals 5, fugacious (lasting but a day), much larger than the calyx.

As this is fugacious, the points are generally dipped afresh when wanted.

The veil is often wanting, but when present is fibrous and fugacious.

Honours and dignities are tranſient, beauty and riches frail and fugacious, to a proverb.

Diffusible stimulants are general stimulants the effects of which are rapid but fugacious, as ether or alcohol.

Petals 5, rarely 6, inserted on the calyx with the 7–20 stamens, fugacious.

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