glomuliferous

English

Etymology

From Latin glomus (“a ball”) + -iferous.

Adjective

glomuliferous (not comparable)

1. (biology) Having small clusters of minutely branched coral-like excrescences.
   • 1848, Samuel Rowe, A Perambulation of the Antient and Royal Forest of Dartmoor:

     The bright green and glomuliferous parmelia , and the resupinate nephroma , will be found on the rocks and trees in the immediate neighbourhood

References

• “glomuliferous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.