What does anatiferous mean?
Anatiferous means (obsolete) Producing ducks..
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/ænəˈtɪfəɹəs/ · adjective
(obsolete) Producing ducks..
Thomas Browne (1646), Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Book III: “[I]f there be anatiferous trees, whoſe corruption breaks forth into Bernacles, yet if they corrupt, they degenerate into maggots, which not produce them again.”
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Anatiferous means (obsolete) Producing ducks..
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Thomas Browne (1646), Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Book III: “[I]f there be anatiferous trees, whoſe corruption breaks forth into Bernacles, yet if they corrupt, they degenerate into maggots, which not produce them again.”
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