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piliferous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
pil-if-er-ous
IPA
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Containing or producing hair.

Etymology

From Latin pilus + -iferous.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

more piliferous (comparative) most piliferous (superlative)

Frequently Paired Words

hairy

Rhymes With

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

Questions

What does piliferous mean?
Containing or producing hair.
Where does piliferous come from?
It is traced to Latin.

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