monstrose

English

Adjective

monstrose (comparative more monstrose, superlative most monstrose)

  1. (botany) Having an abnormal, distorted and disfigured growth of the body (especially of a cactus)
  2. Obsolete spelling of monstrous.

Anagrams

Latin

Adjective

mōnstrōse

  1. vocative masculine singular of mōnstrōsus

References

  • “monstrose”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “monstrose”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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