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nitriferous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
ni-trif-er-ous
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Yielding or containing nitre.

Etymology

From nitre + -i- + -ferous.

Inflected Forms

more nitriferous (comparative) most nitriferous (superlative)

Rhymes With

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

Questions

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

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