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palmiferous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
palmif-er-ous
IPA
18
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Bearing palm trees.

Archaic

Etymology

From Latin palmifer, from palma (“a palm”) + ferre (“to bear”). Compare French palmifère.

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Usage

Inflected Forms

more palmiferous (comparative) most palmiferous (superlative)

Rhymes With

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

Questions

What does palmiferous mean?
Bearing palm trees.
Where does palmiferous come from?
It is traced to Latin.

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