veliferous
veliferous adjective: having or bearing a sail.
Adjective
veliferous (not comparable)
- Having or bearing a sail.
- With its veliferous arms thus firmly embracing its abode, the Argonaut has two modes of progression.1841, Thomas Rymer Jones, A General Outline of the Animal Kingdom, page 443
Origin of veliferous
Latin velifer, from Latin velum (“sail”) + fero (“to bear”), + -ous. By surface analysis, vel(um) + -i- + -fer + -ous.
Words that rhyme with veliferous
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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 veliferous
- What does veliferous mean?
- Veliferous means having or bearing a sail.
- What part of speech is veliferous?
- Veliferous is an adjective.
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