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monstrifer

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monstriferae Adjective: feminine vocative plural, Adjective: feminine dative singular, Adjective: feminine nominative plural, Adjective: feminine genitive singular of monstrifer

See monstriferae in Morpho

monstrĭfer, fĕra, fĕrum, adj. [monstrum-fero],
  • monster-bearing, that produces monsters (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): campi, Val. Fl. 5, 222: novercae, i.e. Juno, who sent monsters to Hercules, id. ib. 5, 43: sinus (i. e. mare), id. ib. 2, 498: antra, Claud. Stil. 2, 110.—
  • II Monstrous, horrid, misshapen: animalium hominumque effigies monstriferas, Plin. 6, 30, 35, § 187 (but the better reading is monstrificas).

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