melliferous

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• Received-Pronunciation: /mɪˈlɪfəɹəs/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /mɪˈlɪfɹəs/
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• General-American: /məˈlɪfəɹəs/
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• General-American: /məˈlɪfɹəs/
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PIE word *mélit Learned borrowing from Latin mellifer (“honey-bearing, honey-producing, melliferous”) + English -ous (suffix forming adjectives denoting the presence of a quality, typically in abundance). Mellifer is derived from mel (“honey”) (plural form mella; ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mélit (“honey”)) + -fer (suffix meaning ‘bearing, bringing, carrying’).

27 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Catalan: mel·lífer — of a plant or its parts: bearing any substance which is collected by bees to produce honey
• Catalan: mel·lífic — of a plant or its parts: bearing any substance which is collected by bees to produce honey
• Czech: medonosný — of a plant or its parts: bearing any substance which is collected by bees to produce honey
• Finnish: mesi- (mesikasvi) — of a plant or its parts: bearing any substance which is collected by bees to produce honey
• Finnish: hunaja- (hunajakasvi) — of a plant or its parts: bearing any substance which is collected by bees to produce honey
• French: mellifère — of a plant or its parts: bearing any substance which is collected by bees to produce honey
• German: honigend — of a plant or its parts: bearing any substance which is collected by bees to produce honey
• German: honigproduzierend — of a plant or its parts: bearing any substance which is collected by bees to produce honey
• Hungarian: mézelő — of a plant or its parts: bearing any substance which is collected by bees to produce honey
• Ido: mielifanta — of a plant or its parts: bearing any substance which is collected by bees to produce honey
• Italian: mellifero — of a plant or its parts: bearing any substance which is collected by bees to produce honey
• Italian: mielifero — of a plant or its parts: bearing any substance which is collected by bees to produce honey
• Portuguese: melífero — of a plant or its parts: bearing any substance which is collected by bees to produce honey
• Romanian: melifer — of a plant or its parts: bearing any substance which is collected by bees to produce honey
• Russian: медоно́сный (medonósnyj) — of a plant or its parts: bearing any substance which is collected by bees to produce honey
• Spanish: melífero — of a plant or its parts: bearing any substance which is collected by bees to produce honey
• Spanish: melífico — of a plant or its parts: bearing any substance which is collected by bees to produce honey
• Catalan: mel·lífer — producing honey
• Catalan: mel·lífic — producing honey
• Finnish: hunajaa tuottava — producing honey
• French: mellifère — producing honey
• Hungarian: mézelő — producing honey
• Latin: mellifer — producing honey
• Portuguese: melífero — producing honey
• Spanish: melífero — producing honey
• Spanish: melífico — producing honey
• Welsh: melddwyn — producing honey