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chætophorous

chætophorous is the obsolete form of chaetophorous.

Meaning of chaetophorous

Adjective

chaetophorous (comparative more chaetophorous, superlative most chaetophorous)

  1. Having bristles.
    • Boars are chaetophorous animals.

Forms of chætophorous

comparativemore chætophorous
superlativemost chætophorous

Questions about chætophorous

What is chætophorous the obsolete form of?
Chætophorous is the obsolete form of chaetophorous.

Words near chætophorous in the dictionary

  1. Chärjew
  2. Chæronea
  3. chæta
  4. chætognath
  5. chætognaths
  6. chætophorous
  7. chætotaxy
  8. chætæ
  9. chèvre
  10. chèvres
  11. Chédiak-Higashi syndrome

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chætophorous (page history and authors); chaetophorous (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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