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nubiferous

nubiferous adjective: bringing, or producing, clouds; cloudy.

Adjective

nubiferous (comparative more nubiferous, superlative most nubiferous)

  1. Bringing, or producing, clouds; cloudy.
    • These preludes [to auroral beams or streamers] consist of certain arrangements of thin streaks of nubiferous matter, floating at high altitudes, and often stretching quite across the heavens, and appearing to converge at two opposite points near the horizon […]1849, The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal, page 225

Forms of nubiferous

comparativemore nubiferous
superlativemost nubiferous

Origin of nubiferous

From Latin nubifer, from nūbēs (“cloud”) + ferre (“to bear”). Compare French nubifère. By surface analysis, Latin nub- + -iferous.

Words that rhyme with nubiferous

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Questions about nubiferous

What does nubiferous mean?
Nubiferous means bringing, or producing, clouds; cloudy.
What part of speech is nubiferous?
Nubiferous is an adjective.

Words near nubiferous in the dictionary

  1. Nubianness
  2. Nubians
  3. nubias
  4. Nubieber
  5. nubies
  6. nubiferous
  7. nubiform
  8. nubigenous
  9. nubilate
  10. nubilated
  11. nubilates

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