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aestiferous

UK/ɛsˈtɪfɛɹʌs/

aestiferous adjective: as the tide, turbulent; ebbing and flowing.

Adjective

aestiferous (comparative more aestiferous, superlative most aestiferous)

  1. (not comparable, obsolete) As the tide, turbulent; ebbing and flowing.
    • Thus they, estiferous, the hollow sphere
      Within, rack’d, and raged against the Highest.1859: John D. Bryant, M. D., Redemption, a Poem, page 241 (John Penington & Son)
  2. (comparable, figuratively) Producing much (aestival) heat.
    • Moreover, if the analogy to political revolution teaches anything at all, its instruction would seem to be that revolution is a wasteful and excessively estiferous process.1979, J. Ron Stanfield, Economic Thought and Social Change, Southern Illinois University Press, →ISBN, page 148, →ISBN

Forms of aestiferous

comparativemore aestiferous
superlativemost aestiferous
alternative formæstiferous
alternative formestiferous

Origin of aestiferous

From Latin aestus (“heat, tide”) + -ferous (“bearing, bringing”).

Words that rhyme with aestiferous

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Questions about aestiferous

What does aestiferous mean?
Aestiferous means as the tide, turbulent; ebbing and flowing.
What part of speech is aestiferous?
Aestiferous is an adjective.
How do you pronounce aestiferous?
Aestiferous is pronounced /ɛsˈtɪfɛɹʌs/ (UK).

Words near aestiferous in the dictionary

  1. aesthetize
  2. aesthetized
  3. aesthetizes
  4. aesthetizing
  5. aestho-physiology
  6. aestiferous
  7. aestival
  8. aestivate
  9. aestivated
  10. aestivates
  11. aestivating

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