vitiferous

English

Adjective

vitiferous (comparative more vitiferous, superlative most vitiferous)

1. Full of or pertaining to vines, especially grape vines.
   • 1793, Thomas Cogan, The Rhine: Or, a Journey from Utretch [sic] to Francfort, page 334:

     Now these spirits are somewhat evaporated, I can sit myself down with a degree of composure to give you a general idea of the vitiferous riches—if you will tolerate a word that savours of pedantry, for which these districts are so justly renowned.

   • 1807, Thomas Owen, The Fourteen Books of Palladius Rutilius Taurus Æmilianus, on Agriculture, page 112:

     The branches of vitiferous trees are to be so formed, that the one may not be directed in a line under the other : but in a rich situation, the elm is to be left without a branch eight feet from the ground; in a poor one, seven feet.

   • 1958, Acta agronomica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae:

     Accordingly, we have to reckon with the more intensive occurrence of this vine pest only in the vitiferous regions of the Transdanubium.