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oleiferous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
oleif-er-ous
IPA
13
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

That produces oil

Etymology

From Latin oleum (“oil”) + -iferous.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Rhymes With

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

Questions

What does oleiferous mean?
That produces oil
Where does oleiferous come from?
It is traced to Latin.

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