squamigerous

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"Can it be possible that silver is to be trodden down by the feet and claws of gold-bugs, flattened by the Kanchulla of money-devils or swallowed by the squamigerous hydra of Wall Street?"

From Latin squamiger; squama (“a scale”) + gerere (“to bear”).

more squamigerous (comparative) most squamigerous (superlative)

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

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