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nickeliferous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
nick-e-lif-er-ous
IPA
22
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Yielding or containing nickel.

Etymology

From nickel + -i- + -ferous.

Inflected Forms

more nickeliferous (comparative) most nickeliferous (superlative)

Rhymes With

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

Questions

What does nickeliferous mean?
Yielding or containing nickel.
Where does nickeliferous come from?
From nickel + -i- + -ferous.

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