anatiferous

English

Etymology

From Latin anas, anat- (“duck”) + -i- +‎ -ferous.

Pronunciation

Adjective

anatiferous (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Producing ducks. Formerly used of barnacles, since it was believed that they produced ducks and geese.
    • Thomas Browne (1646), Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Book III: “[I]f there be anatiferous trees, whoſe corruption breaks forth into Bernacles, yet if they corrupt, they degenerate into maggots, which not produce them again.”

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