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6 words match “ESTIFEROUS”

ESTIFEROUS a.
Producing heat. [R.] Smart.
PESTIFEROUS a. 2 definitions
Pest-bearing; pestilential; noxious to health; malignant; infectious; contagious; as, pestiferous bodies. "Poor, pestiferous creatures begging alms." Evelyn. "Unwholesome and pestiferous occupations." Burke.
PESTIFEROUSLY adv.
In a pestiferuos manner.
BORAGINACEOUS a.
y of plants (Boraginaceæ) which includes the borage, heliotrope, beggar's lice, and many pestiferous plants.
PESTFUL a.
Pestiferous. "After long and pestful calms." Coleridge.
SQUIRREL n.
unt. (d) A market fish of Bermuda (Holocentrum Ascensione). -- Squirrel grass (Bot.), a pestiferous grass (Hordeum murinum) related to barley. In California the stiffly awned spiklets work into the wool of sheep, and into the throat, flesh, and eyes of animals, sometimes even producing death. -- Squirrel hake (Zoöl.)…