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maliferous

maliferous adjective: unhealthy.

Adjective

maliferous (comparative more maliferous, superlative most maliferous)

  1. (archaic) unhealthy
  2. (archaic) unsafe, perilous
    • that gallant, fine-hearted soldier, who […] fell a victim to the maliferous climate of China1859, William Howard Russell, My Diary in India, in the Year 1858-9

Forms of maliferous

comparativemore maliferous
superlativemost maliferous

Origin of maliferous

From mal- + -iferous.

Questions about maliferous

What does maliferous mean?
Maliferous means unhealthy.
What part of speech is maliferous?
Maliferous is an adjective.

Words near maliferous in the dictionary

  1. malicorium
  2. Malidegao
  3. malidentification
  4. malidentifications
  5. malidzano
  6. maliferous
  7. maligator
  8. Maligaya
  9. malign
  10. malignable
  11. malignance

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