salutiferous

[sal-yuh-tif-er-uh s]

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adjective

salutary.

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Origin of salutiferous

1530–40; < Latin salūtifer health-bearing (see salute, -i-, -fer) + -ous

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But Pæon him not liable to death With unction smooth of salutiferous balms Heal'd soon.
The Iliad of Homer
Homer
Lake Erie lies too far south, and is bordered by too many swamps to be included in the salutiferous group.'
Old Mackinaw
W. P. Strickland.