Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having wool or woollike hair.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Bearing or producing wool.
Wiktionary
- adj. Bearing or producing wool.
- adj. The sheep is a laniferous animal.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Bearing or producing wool.
Etymologies
- Latin lanifer; lana wool + ferre to bear: compare French lanifèare. (Wiktionary)
- Latin lānifer (lāna, wool + -fer, -fer) + -ous. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘laniferous’.
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Life is rife .................
-ife- & -iferous : common and not-so-common words about life
fructiferous, ifere, glomuliferous, graniferous, guttiferales, lifen, manifest, nimbiferous, oviferous, roriferous, petaliferous, rangifer and 105 more...
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Open List: Sheepishness
Everything sheep, from Artiodactyla to zodiac.
lanolin, ram, ewe, Artiodactyla, even-toed ungulate, ruminant, Ovis aries, ovine, domestic, domesticated, neotenic, mouflon and 426 more...
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lacis, laches, labret, labile, lability, labarum, labefactation, labeorphily, lux, luff, lour, limn and 496 more...
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Bearing and Carrying
Words with the -fer suffix ("that which carries") or the -ferous suffix ("bearing," "producing," or "yielding").
aligerous, aluminiferous, antenniferous, argentiferous, armigerous, arundiferous, auriferous, bacciferous, balaniferous, barbigerous, belliferous, brachiferous and 187 more...
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Panvocalics
Panvocalics are words that contain all the vowels. Listed here are "euvocalics": words that have each of the five vowels only once. (These are also a kind of supervocalic.) Words that also have a "...
subcontinental, unoriental, ultraviolet, tourmaline, sequoia, jacqueminot, milquetoast, xenosaurid, thunderation, adenovirus, accoutering, absolutive and 2777 more...
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Collage's Words
subtle, calamity, impale, qat, painterly, piebald, surly, nihilistic, repine, slake, larder, sepulchre and 349 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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Neology
neology, du jour, monanthous, corf, schuss, cladophyll, laniferous, astatic, dahabeah, vibrissa, resupinate, almandine and 77 more...
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