Productrix

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Female equivalent of productor. archaic, feminine, form-of, no-plural

    "By these and many other reasons and examples I cannot beleeue that these Claiks (or Barnacls as I call them) are producted either by the qualities of the trées or the roots thereof, but onelie by the nature of the sea, which is the verie cause and productrix of so manie wonderfull creatures."

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"By these and many other reasons and examples I cannot beleeue that these Claiks (or Barnacls as I call them) are producted either by the qualities of the trées or the roots thereof, but onelie by the nature of the sea, which is the verie cause and productrix of so manie wonderfull creatures."

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin prōductrīx. By surface analysis, product + -trix.

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