nubiferous

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adjective

Bringing, or producing, clouds; cloudy.

OriginLatin nubifer →
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Meanings

adjectivenubiferous (comparative more nubiferous, superlative most nubiferous)

comparative more nubiferous · superlative most nubiferous

  1. Bringing, or producing, clouds; cloudy.

    These preludes [to auroral beams or streamers] consist of certain arrangements of thin streaks of nubiferous matter, floating at high altitudes, and often stretching quite across the heavens, and appearing to converge at two opposite points near the horizon […]

    1849, The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal, page 225

Origin

  1. Latinnubifer
  2. Englishnubiferous

From Latin nubifer, from nūbēs (“cloud”) + ferre (“to bear”). Compare French nubifère. By surface analysis, Latin nub- + -iferous.

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Translations

French nubifère
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Italian nubifero
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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with nubiferous

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Chicago

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