insectiferous
English
Etymology
insect + -i- + -ferous
Adjective
insectiferous (comparative more insectiferous, superlative most insectiferous)
- Containing or producing insects.
- 1928, Edmund Blunden, Undertones of War, Penguin 2010, p. 80:
- 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 2010, p. 80: