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insectiferous en · ADJ

Etymology

From insect + -i- + -ferous.

Meanings

1. Containing or producing insects.
   • The doctor and myself slept in a long, deep, French dugout, with a heavy timbered roof, quite warm, and scarcely less insectiferous. 1928, Edmund Blunden, Undertones of War, Penguin, published 2010, page 80:

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