Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Bringing or producing clouds.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Bringing, or producing, clouds.
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- adjective Bringing, or producing,
clouds .
Etymologies
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Examples
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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
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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
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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
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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
reesetee commented on the word nubiferous
Bringing or producing clouds.
November 19, 2007