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culmiferous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
cul-mif-er-ous
IPA
18
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Containing, or abounding in, culm or glance coal.

adj

Having jointed stems or culms.

Example Sentences

Etymology

From culm + -i- + -ferous.

Inflected Forms

more culmiferous (comparative) most culmiferous (superlative)

Rhymes With

carboniferous fossiliferous cruciferous seminiferous odoriferous splendiferous luminiferous metalliferous floriferous auriferous stoloniferous calciferous

Questions

What does culmiferous mean?
Containing, or abounding in, culm or glance coal.
Where does culmiferous come from?
From culm + -i- + -ferous.

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