graniferous
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin granifer, from granum (“grain”) + ferre (“to bear”). Compare French granifère.
Adjective[edit]
graniferous (not comparable)
- Bearing grain, or seeds like grain.
- 1806, Carl Linnaeus, A General System of Nature:
- Flowers hermaphrodite ; valves ovate , entire , all of them graniferous
References[edit]
“graniferous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.