Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

nubiferous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: nubif-er-ous
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Bringing, or producing, clouds; cloudy.

Example Sentences

"These preludes [to auroral beams or streamers] consist of certain arrangements of thin streaks of nubiferous matter, floating at high altitudes, and often stretching quite across the heavens, and appearing to converge at two opposite points near the horizon […]"

Etymology

From Latin nubifer, from nūbēs (“cloud”) + ferre (“to bear”). Compare French nubifère. By surface analysis, Latin nub- + -iferous.

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: nubifer

Inflected Forms

more nubiferous (comparative) most nubiferous (superlative)

Rhymes With

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

Questions

What does nubiferous mean?: Bringing, or producing, clouds; cloudy.
Where does nubiferous come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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