insectiferous

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

insect +‎ -i- +‎ -ferous

Adjective[edit]

insectiferous (comparative more insectiferous, superlative most insectiferous)

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