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monstrĭfer
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.— Monstrous, horrid, misshapen: animalium hominumque effigies monstriferas, Plin. 6, 30, 35, § 187 (but the better reading is monstrificas).

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monstrĭfer
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monstrĭfer
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monstrifer
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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.— Monstrous, horrid, misshapen: animalium hominumque effigies monstriferas, Plin. 6, 30, 35, § 187 (but the better reading is monstrificas).
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monstrifer

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