nepheligenous

adjective

1. Producing clouds of smoke.

   rare

   I am a misocapnist, particularly when someone is using stinky tobacco with nepheligenous results.

Where it comes from

From Ancient Greek νεφέλη (nephélē, “cloud”) + -genous. Coined by Oliver Wendell Holmes in 1862.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry nepheligenous (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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