Bearing or producing a beard; having the quality of growing facial hair.
From Latin 'barba' (beard) plus '-gerous,' the combining form meaning 'bearing' or 'producing,' as in 'carboniferous' (bearing carbon).
This Latin-based adjective reveals how Renaissance scholars loved to describe biological features with scientific precision—it's the kind of word a 17th-century naturalist might use to classify animals in their detailed observations.
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