insectiferous
English
editEtymology
editFrom insect + -i- + -ferous.
Adjective
editinsectiferous (comparative more insectiferous, superlative most insectiferous)
- 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.