insectiferous
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From insect + -i- + -ferous.
Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -ɪfəɹəs
Adjective
[edit]insectiferous (comparative more insectiferous, superlative most insectiferous)
- Containing or producing insects.
- 1928, Edmund Blunden, Undertones of War, Penguin, published 2010, page 80:
- The doctor and myself slept in a long, deep, French dugout, with a heavy timbered roof, quite warm, and scarcely less insectiferous.