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siliciferous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
sili-cif-er-ous
IPA
17
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

yielding or bearing silica

Etymology

From silica + -i- + -ferous.

Inflected Forms

more siliciferous (comparative) most siliciferous (superlative)

Rhymes With

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

Questions

What does siliciferous mean?
yielding or bearing silica
Where does siliciferous come from?
From silica + -i- + -ferous.

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