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lanigerous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
laniger-ous
IPA
11
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Bearing or producing wool.

Etymology

From Latin laniger, from lano (“wool”) + gerere (“to bear”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: *h₂welh₁-, laniger

Inflected Forms

more lanigerous (comparative) most lanigerous (superlative)

Synonyms

laniferous

Rhymes With

dentigerous armigerous plumigerous ovigerous proligerous cornigerous coralligerous pupigerous calcigerous cirrigerous setigerous ramigerous

Questions

What does lanigerous mean?
Bearing or producing wool.
Where does lanigerous come from?
It is traced to Latin.

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