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ligniferous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
lig-nif-er-ous
IPA
15
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Yielding or producing wood.

Example Sentences

Etymology

From Latin lignifer, from lignum (“wood”) + ferre (“to bear”). Compare French lignifère.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

more ligniferous (comparative) most ligniferous (superlative)

Rhymes With

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

Questions

What does ligniferous mean?
Yielding or producing wood.
Where does ligniferous come from?
It is traced to Latin.

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