Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Bearing, producing, or containing acids, or an acid.
Wiktionary
- adj. Containing or yielding an acid.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Containing or yielding an acid.
Etymologies
- From Latin acidus (“sour, acid”) + -ferous. (Wiktionary)
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘acidiferous’.
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Carry Me Home
Another kind of bear list: words bearing the -fer suffix ("that which carries"), the -ferous suffix ("bearing," "producing," or "yielding").
Also see (if you like) Carry Me Home Again.aquifer, conifer, umbellifer, transfer, thurifer, defer, telfer, suffer, rotifer, refer, foraminifer, poriferous and 157 more...
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 more...
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