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English
Adjective
monstrose (comparative more monstrose, superlative most monstrose)
- (botany) Having an abnormal, distorted and disfigured growth of the body (especially of a cactus)
- Obsolete spelling of monstrous
Anagrams
Latin
Adjective
mōnstrōse
- 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.