English edit

Etymology edit

insect +‎ -i- +‎ -ferous

Adjective edit

insectiferous (comparative more insectiferous, superlative most insectiferous)

  1. Containing or producing insects.
    • 1928, Edmund Blunden, Undertones of War, Penguin, published 2010, page 80:
      The doctor and myself slept in a long, deep, French dugout, with a heavy timbered roof, quite warm, and scarcely less insectiferous.