Adjective: insectiferous
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more insectiferous |
| Superlative | most insectiferous |
Sample Sentences
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The doctor and myself slept in a long, deep, French dugout, with a heavy timbered roof, quite warm, and scarcely less insectiferous. [1928, Edmund Blunden, Undertones of War, Penguin, published 2010, page 80:]
Adjectives inflected like insectiferous
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From insect + -i- + -ferous.