ovarious
UK/əʊˈvɛəɹi.əs/US/oʊˈvɛɹi.əs/
ovarious adjective: pertaining to or made up of eggs.
Adjective
ovarious (not comparable)
- Pertaining to or made up of eggs.
- Here the plain harmless Native […] to the Rocks / Dire-clinging, gathers his ovarious Food […].a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Autumn”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC
Origin of ovarious
From Latin ōvum + -arious.
Words that rhyme with ovarious
- cibarious
- scarious
- Stradivarius
- tartareous
- vagarious
- vicarious
- Aquarius
- atrabilarious
- calcareous
- contrarious
- hilarious
- lampadarius
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- librarius
- malarious
- multifarious
- omnifarious
- precarious
- riparious
- testudinarious
- various
- acinarious
- adversarious
- anticarious
- apocrisarius
- apocrisiarius
- arbitrarious
- arenarious
- argillocalcareous
- armarius
- assarius
- atramentarious
- Belisarius
- bordarius
- burglarious
- caeremoniarius
- calcarious
- carious
- confessarius
- corneo-calcareous
- cotarius
- duplicarius
- filarious
- fimetarious
- frumentarious
- glareous
- howlarious
- lapidarious
- librarious
- multivarious
- nectareous
- nectarious
- nefarious
- nightmarious
- noncalcareous
- noncarious
- nongregarious
- nonmalarious
- nonvicarious
- octarius
- octofarious
Questions about ovarious
- What does ovarious mean?
- Ovarious means pertaining to or made up of eggs.
- What part of speech is ovarious?
- Ovarious is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce ovarious?
- Ovarious is pronounced /əʊˈvɛəɹi.əs/ (UK).
Words near ovarious in the dictionary
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