anatiferous
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ænəˈtɪfəɹəs/
- Rhymes: -ɪfəɹəs
Adjective
anatiferous
- Producing ducks. Formerly used of barnacles, since it was believed that they produced ducks and geese.
- If there be anatiferous trees, whose corruption breaks forth into barnacles; yet, if they corrupt, they degenerate into maggots, which produce not them again. - Brown's Vulgar Errours.