Definitions

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  • Bringing or producing clouds.

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  • adjective Bringing, or producing, clouds.

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  • adjective Bringing, or producing, clouds.

Etymologies

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Latin nubifer; nubes cloud + ferre to bear: compare French nubifère.

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Examples

  • We shall sleep well to-night; but let us sit awhile with nubiferous, or, if we may coin a word, nepheligenous accompaniment, such as shall gently narcotize the over-wearied brain and fold its convolutions for slumber like the leaves of a lily at nightfall.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 Various

  • And its world was a narrow swamp, a grey, nubiferous environment, where it lived its contented, active, idyllic, almost mindless existence.

    The Voyage of the Space Beagle Van Vogt, A. E. 1950

  • We shall sleep well to-night; but let us sit awhile with nubiferous, or, if we may coin a word, nepheligenous accompaniment, such as shall gently narcotize the over-wearied brain and fold its convolutions for slumber like the leaves of a lily at nightfall.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

  • We shall sleep well to-night; but let us sit awhile with nubiferous, or, if we may coin a word, nepheligenous accompaniment, such as shall gently narcotize the over-wearied brain and fold its convolutions for slumber like the leaves of a lily at nightfall.

    Pages from an Old Volume of Life; a collection of essays, 1857-1881 Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

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  • Bringing or producing clouds.

    November 19, 2007