ferous
See also: -ferous
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin ferus. See fierce and feral.
Adjective
ferous (comparative more ferous, superlative most ferous)
- wild; savage
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Arthur Wilson to this entry?)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “ferous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)