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sudoriferous - adj., producing, secreting, or bearing sweat.


Anyone who was looking for a $20 word for "sweaty", and I know that's practically all of you, here it is. The sudoriferous glands are what the anatomists call the sweat glands. In use from the 1590s, from Late Latin sūdōrifer, from Latin sūdor sweat.

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