nimbiferous

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adjective

Foreboding clouds or stormy weather.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

adjectivenimbiferous (comparative more nimbiferous, superlative most nimbiferous)

comparative more nimbiferous · superlative most nimbiferous

  1. rareForeboding clouds or stormy weather.

Origin

  1. Latinnimbifer
  2. Englishnimbiferous

From Latin nimbifer, from nimbus (“a cloud”) + ferre (“to bear”). By surface analysis, Latin nimb(us) + -iferous.

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APA

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Chicago

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