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Complete Definition of "anatiferous"

English
Pronunciation
(an-uh-TI-fuh-ruhs)

Adjective
anatiferous

  1. 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.

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