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puerperous

puerperous adjective: bearing children.

Adjective

puerperous (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Bearing children.

Origin of puerperous

From Latin puerpera + -ous.

Questions about puerperous

What does puerperous mean?
Puerperous means bearing children.
What part of speech is puerperous?
Puerperous is an adjective.

Words near puerperous in the dictionary

  1. puerperant
  2. puerperants
  3. puerperas
  4. puerperia
  5. puerperium
  6. puerperous
  7. puerpery
  8. puers
  9. Puerta
  10. Puertas
  11. Puertases

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