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life-bearing

life-bearing adjective: supporting, sustaining, or carrying life.

Adjective

life-bearing (comparative more life-bearing, superlative most life-bearing)

  1. Supporting, sustaining, or carrying life
    • a life-bearing planet

Forms of life-bearing

comparativemore life-bearing
superlativemost life-bearing
alternative formlifebearing

Origin of life-bearing

From life + bearing.

Questions about life-bearing

What does life-bearing mean?
Life-bearing means supporting, sustaining, or carrying life.
What part of speech is life-bearing?
Life-bearing is an adjective.

Words near life-bearing in the dictionary

  1. life, prosperity, health
  2. life-affirming
  3. life-and-death
  4. life-arrow
  5. life-arrows
  6. life-bearing
  7. life-blood
  8. life-buoy
  9. life-buoys
  10. life-car
  11. life-care

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