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by Carlyn Maw on June 28, 2006, no comments

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferous“The following table is a relatively complete listing of words relating to the bearing, exuding, carrying, emitting, or containing of things by other things. Note that almost all of them end in “ferous” or “gerous” (from the Latin ferre and gerere, both meaning ‘to bear’). Many of the 200 words below are relatively uncommon and/or technical; nevertheless (if one is permitted to coin a neologism), one could say that this is a rather “verbiferous” list.”The don’t however have my new favorite: spangliferous.bearing, exuding, carrying, emitting, or containing spangles

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