Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

guttiferous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: gut-tif-er-ous
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Yielding gum or resinous substance, especially said of trees and shrubs in family Guttiferae (now Clusiaceae) that abound in resinous sap.

Etymology

From guttifer + -ous, from New Latin guttifera (“gum-bearing plant”), from Latin gutta (“drop”).

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: guttifera, gutta

Rhymes With

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

Questions

What does guttiferous mean?: Yielding gum or resinous substance, especially said of trees and shrubs in family Guttiferae (now Clusiaceae) that abound in resinous sap.
Where does guttiferous come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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