maculiferous
maculiferous adjective: having maculae or spots.
Adjective
maculiferous (not comparable)
- Having maculae or spots.
- […] combined with the earth's rotation on the axis, so the maculiferous belts of the sun may owe their origin to a greater equatorial efflux of heat, combined with the axial rotation of the luminary.1863, John Herschel, Good words, page 280
- They place in a very clear and unmistakable light the anticipation in point of time of the occurrence of the maximum of maculiferous excitement before the middle of the total period which the present rapidly increasing number of spots actually in progress seems to promise fully to confirm for the...1870, Warren de la Rue, “Researches on Solar Physics”, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, volume 160, page 397
- Synonyms:
- maculous
Synonyms of maculiferous
Origin of maculiferous
From macula + -i- + -ferous.
Words that rhyme with maculiferous
- melliferous
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- herbiferous
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- magnetiferous
- 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
Questions about maculiferous
- What does maculiferous mean?
- Maculiferous means having maculae or spots.
- What part of speech is maculiferous?
- Maculiferous is an adjective.
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