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piligerous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
piliger-ous
IPA
13
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

piliferous (covered in hair)

Etymology

From Latin pilus (“hair”) + -gerous. Compare French piligère.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

more piligerous (comparative) most piligerous (superlative)

Rhymes With

dentigerous armigerous plumigerous ovigerous proligerous cornigerous coralligerous pupigerous calcigerous cirrigerous setigerous lanigerous

Questions

What does piligerous mean?
piliferous (covered in hair)
Where does piligerous come from?
It is traced to Latin.

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