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jaculiferous

jaculiferous adjective: prickly; bearing spines.

Adjective

jaculiferous (not comparable)

  1. (rare) prickly; bearing spines
    • Mice, rats, gophers, groundhogs, the jaculiferous porcupine: they're all more or less miniature beavers — just add water.2005, Bill Roorbach, Temple Stream: A Rural Odyssey, page 46

Origin of jaculiferous

Latin jacula (“dart”) + -ferous.

Questions about jaculiferous

What does jaculiferous mean?
Jaculiferous means prickly; bearing spines.
What part of speech is jaculiferous?
Jaculiferous is an adjective.

Words near jaculiferous in the dictionary

  1. jaculation
  2. jaculations
  3. jaculator
  4. jaculators
  5. jaculatory
  6. jaculiferous
  7. Jacumba Hot Springs
  8. Jacundá
  9. jacupirangite
  10. jacupirangites
  11. jacutinga

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