Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

petroliferous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: petro-lif-er-ous
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Containing or yielding petroleum.

Example Sentences

"Oil-shales are often the last relics of a former impregnation with petroleum; they are associated with phenomena—such as the intrusive asphaltites or manjacks—common to petroliferous regions, but in many cases the parent oilfields, the sources of the former impregnation, are things of the past."

Etymology

From petrol + -i- + -ferous.

Inflected Forms

more petroliferous (comparative) most petroliferous (superlative)

Frequently Paired Words

bituminous

Rhymes With

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

Questions

What does petroliferous mean?: Containing or yielding petroleum.
Where does petroliferous come from?: From petrol + -i- + -ferous.

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