-ous
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"-ous" in a Sentence (7 examples)
bulb + -ous → bulbous
courage + -ous → courageous
joy + -ous → joyous
poison + -ous → poisonous
riot + -ous → riotous
aptonym + -ous → aptonymous
arrhenotoky + -ous → arrhenotokous
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