fœtiferous

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• beneficial — adj 1. advantageous, helpful, serviceable, availing, valuable; favorable, propitious, auspicious, promising, benign; suitable, convenient, commodious, contributive, contributory, conducive; aidful, aiding, obliging, accommodative, accommodating,… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

• killing — n 1. murder, slaying, manslaughter, thug gee, fatality, death, violent death, bloody or foul murder, murder most foul, foul play, assassination, shooting, strangling, strangulation, garrotting, poisoning; execution, capital punishment, judicial… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

• murderous — adj 1. killing, homicidal, cutthroat, assassinative, death dealing, lethal, fatal, mortal, mor tiferous, deadly, deathly, Archaic. lethiferous; slaughterous, internecine, savage, barbarous, cruel, brutal, fiendish, cannibalistic, anthropophagous …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

• tonic — n 1. medicine, Med. roborant, Med. analeptic, restorative, cordial, ptisan, Inf. bracer; invigorant, stimulant, pickup. 2. refresher, boost, Inf. pick me up, Inf. picker upper, Inf. upper, Inf. shot in the arm, Inf. ego trip; pep talk, build up,… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

• flucti- — comb. form of Lat. fluctus wave, in the following adjs. given by Blount and Bailey: flucˈtiferous [L. fer bearing + ous], bearing or producing waves; flucˈtifragous [L. fluctifrag us], wave breaking; flucˈtisonant [L. sonant em, pr. pple. of… …   Useful english dictionary

• magnetiferous — magneˈtiferous, a. [f. magnet + iferous.] Producing or conducting magnetism. Webster (citing Journal of Science). In mod. Dicts …   Useful english dictionary

• oolitiferous — ooliˈtiferous, a. rare 0. [f. as prec. + iferous.] Producing or containing oolite. in Webster …   Useful english dictionary