sulfur

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A chemical element with atomic number 16, having a bright yellow color and characteristic smell, used commercially in a variety of products such as insecticides, black powder, and matchsticks.

   A Dungeon horrible, on all ſides round / As one great Furnace flam’d, yet from thoſe flames / No light, but rather darkneſs viſible / […] but torture without end / Still urges, and a fiery Deluge, fed / With ever-burning Sulphur unconſum’d:

2. 2
   adj

   Having a characteristic sulfur-like smell, reminiscent of rotten eggs.

   On the November morning when the sulfur burps began, Derron Borders was welcoming prospective students at the graduate school where he works in New York. […] Sulfur burps appear to be a somewhat rare side effect of semaglutide, tirzepatide, and other drugs in their class, known as GLP-1 receptor agonists.

3. 3
   noun

   an abundant tasteless odorless multivalent nonmetallic element

4. 4
   verb

   treat with sulphur in order to preserve

5. 5
   noun

   A yellowish green colour, like that of sulfur.

6. 6
   noun

   Any of various pierid butterflies of the subfamily Coliadinae, especially the sulfur-coloured species.

7. 7
   adj

   Of a yellowish green colour, like that of sulfur.

8. 8
   verb

   To treat with sulfur, or a sulfur compound, especially to preserve or to counter agricultural pests.

Etymology

Etymology tree Latin sulpur Latin sulfur Latin sulphur Anglo-Norman sulfrebor. Middle English sulphur English sulfur From Middle English sulphur, borrowed from Anglo-Norman sulfre, from Latin sulfur, from sulpur itself of uncertain origin. Displaced Old English swefl and largely displaced brimstone.