fossiliferous

形容词 adj.

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Containing fossils.
    — Having already described him [the whale] in most of his present habitatory and anatomical peculiarities, it now remains to magnify him in an archæological, fossiliferous, and antediluvian point of view.

词形变化

more fossiliferous comparative most fossiliferous superlative

词源

Etymology tree
English fossil
Latin -i-bor.
English -i-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰéreti
Proto-Italic *ferō
Latin ferō
Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.?
Proto-Italic *-ōtsos or *-otsos
Latin -ōsus
Old French -usbor.
Middle English -ous
English -ous
English -ferous
English fossiliferous
From fossil + -i- + -ferous.
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