luciferous
luciferous adjective: illuminating; providing light.
Adjective
luciferous
- illuminating; providing light.
- Illuminating; offering insight.
- [I]t affords a very pleasant object through the Microscope, and may, perhaps, upon further examination, prove very luciferous.1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section XXIV
Origin of luciferous
Borrowed from Latin lucifer (“light-bearing”) (from lux, lucis (“light”)) + the suffix -ous.
Words formed from luciferous
Words that rhyme with luciferous
- melliferous
- proliferous
- aestiferous
- antheriferous
- aquiferous
- conchiferous
- cruciferous
- culmiferous
- foraminiferous
- gemmiferous
- herbiferous
- magnetiferous
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- mammiferous
- mortiferous
- multiferous
- papyriferous
- pediferous
- pestiferous
- pomiferous
- poriferous
- radiferous
- salutiferous
- seminiferous
- stelliferous
- umbelliferous
- acetabuliferous
- acidiferous
- aeriferous
- agatiferous
- albuminiferous
- aliferous
- alkaliferous
- alumiferous
- aluminiferous
- amberiferous
- amentiferous
- ammonitiferous
- amygdaliferous
- amyliferous
- anatiferous
- angeliferous
- antenniferous
- anthraciferous
- argentiferous
- argilliferous
- armiferous
- astriferous
- auriferous
- bacciferous
- balaniferous
- balsamiferous
- belliferous
- biliferous
- bituminiferous
- branchiferous
- bulbiferous
- byssiferous
- cadmiferous
- calamiferous
- calcariferous
Questions about luciferous
- What does luciferous mean?
- Luciferous means illuminating; providing light.
- What part of speech is luciferous?
- Luciferous is an adjective.
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