floriferous
/fləˈɹɪ.fə.ɹəs/adjective
floriferous is an adjective meaning “That bears flowers (especially lots of flowers)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-O-R-I-F-E-R-O-U-S, and it appears about once in every 43 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does floriferous mean?
adjective
- 1
That bears flowers (especially lots of flowers).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce floriferous?
- /fləˈɹɪ.fə.ɹəs/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-floriferous.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of floriferous
- more floriferous comparative
- most floriferous superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is floriferous?
Floriferous appears about once in every 43 million words in written English, the 201,693rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Floriferous in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense bearing flowers:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | florífero |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does floriferous come from?
From Latin flos, floris + -i- + -ferous.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).