calliferous

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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from New Latin callifer, equivalent to callus +‎ -i- +‎ -ferous.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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calliferous (not comparable)

  1. (normally botany or entomology) Bearing or producing calluses.
    • 1901, Tomitaro Makino, Observations on the flora of Japan. Fasciculus 1. Reprinted from the Botanical Magazine, Tokyo Vol. XV. 1901, Tokyo, page 52:
      Rumex (Lapathum) Daiwoo (Sieb.) Makino nom. nov.
      Inner perianth 3, erect-patent, longer than the outer ones, glabrous, herbaceous; lobes broadly oblong, obtuse, membranaceous and more or less minutely erose on the margin, with anastomosing veins, 2½-3 mm. long, after anthesis gradually enlarged and tinged with rose-colour, in fruit deltoid-ovate to ovate-reniform, minutely denticulate on the margin, obtuse, subcrispate, reticulated-veined, 4–8 mm. wide, the midrib narrowly prominent below but not calliferous, or sometimes hardly and minutely unicalliferous.

Derived terms

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  • unicalliferous (hapax, see T. Makino above)