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papilliferous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
pa-pil-lif-er-ous
IPA
20
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Furnished or covered with papillae.

Etymology

From papilla + -i- + -ferous.

Inflected Forms

more papilliferous (comparative) most papilliferous (superlative)

Rhymes With

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

Questions

What does papilliferous mean?
Furnished or covered with papillae.
Where does papilliferous come from?
From papilla + -i- + -ferous.

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