FOAMY (foamier, foamiest)

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Irregular inflected forms: foamier    , foamiest   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does foamy mean? 

• FOAMY (adjective)
  The adjective FOAMY has 2 senses:

1. producing or covered with lathery sweat or saliva from exhaustion or disease

2. emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation

  Familiarity information: FOAMY used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FOAMY (adjective)

Comparative: foamier   
Superlative: foamiest   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Producing or covered with lathery sweat or saliva from exhaustion or disease

Synonyms:

foaming; foamy; frothing

Context example:

the rabid animal's frothing mouth

Similar:

unhealthy (not in or exhibiting good health in body or mind)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation

Synonyms:

bubbling; bubbly; effervescing; foaming; foamy; frothy; spumy

Context example:

foamy (or frothy) beer

Similar:

effervescent ((of a liquid) giving off bubbles)

Derivation:

foam (a mass of small bubbles formed in or on a liquid)

foaminess (the property of being foamy)

 Context examples 

A pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma characterized by the presence of adenocarcinoma cells with foamy cytoplasm.

(Pancreatic Foamy Gland Adenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

The cytoplasm of the neoplastic cells is usually not entirely clear, and is often variably vacuolated, foamy, and granular.

(Parathyroid Gland Water-Clear Cell Adenoma, NCI Thesaurus)

It is characterized by the presence of lipid-laden, foamy histiocytes and Touton-type giant cells in the dermis.

(Juvenile Xanthogranuloma, NCI Thesaurus)

It is characterized by the presence of lipid-laden, foamy histiocytes and Touton-type giant cells forming nodules in the affected anatomic sites.

(Disseminated Juvenile Xanthogranuloma, NCI Thesaurus)

It is characterized by the presence of nodules which contain large melanoma cells with clear, foamy or finely vacuolated cytoplasm.

(Balloon Cell Melanoma, NCI Thesaurus)

It is characterized by the presence of large melanocytes with clear, foamy or finely vacuolated cytoplasm.

(Balloon Cell Nevus, NCI Thesaurus)

Morphologically, it consists of foamy histiocytes and characteristic basophilic inclusion bodies called Michaelis-Gutmann bodies.

(Malakoplakia, NCI Thesaurus)

Several morphologic variants exist, including atrophic, pseudohyperplastic, foamy gland, and oncocytic variants.

(Acinar Prostate Adenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

The rain was still falling, but the darkness had parted in the west, and there was a pink and golden billow of foamy clouds above the sea.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)