Etymology

jaculiferous

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Today it means: prickly; bearing spines Full definition →

Latin jacula
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  1. Latin · derived fromjacula“dart”
  2. English todayjaculiferous

Latin jacula (“dart”) + -ferous.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.