Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Bearing herbs.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Bearing herbs or vegetation.
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- adjective Bearing
herbs orvegetation .
Etymologies
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herb + -iferous
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Examples
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We have taken control of this seedy tool of the oppressors to tell you that the glorious end of herbiferous slavery is about to sprout!
Communique from the PLA (nt) Don Lewis 2008
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It belongs properly to the herbiferous species, and grows with uncommon rapidity.
A Woman's Journey Round the World Ida Pfeiffer 1827
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"Messieurs cadets, highly educated young people; the flower, so to speak, of the intelligentzia; future masters of ordnance, will you not lend to a little old man, an aborigine of these herbiferous regions, one good old cigarette?
Yama: the pit Bernard Guilbert Guerney 1904
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