Mónstrifer, pen. cor. Adiect. Plini. That bringeth or breedeth monsters.Annus monstrifer. Claud. Monstriferos agit vnda sinus. Lucan. Tumultus monstrifer. Luca.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
monstrĭfer, fĕra, fĕrum, adj. [monstrum-fero], monster-bearing, that produces monsters (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): campi, Val. Fl. 5, 222: novercae, i. e.
Juno, who sent monsters to Hercules
, id. ib. 5, 43: sinus (i. e. mare), id. ib. 2, 498: antra, Claud. Stil. 2, 110.—II.Monstrous, horrid, misshapen: animalium hominumque effigies monstriferas, Plin. 6, 30, 35, 187 (but the better reading is monstrificas).