Meanings
adjectiveamyliferous (comparative more amyliferous, superlative most amyliferous)
comparative more amyliferous · superlative most amyliferous
- Bearing or producing starch.
The amyliferous leaf-cells seem to contain no chloroplastids; the mass of starch grains with which the cell is filled may either be colourless or have a distinctly yellowish or occasionally brownish tinge.
1897, Alfred J. Ewart, “Further Observations upon Assimilatory Inhibition”, in The Journal of the Linnean Society, volume 31, number 219, London, page 565
Origin
- Latinamylum“starch”
- Englishamyliferous
From Latin amylum (“starch”) + -iferous.
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Full word history & related roots →Translations
French amylifère
- amylifèrebearing or producing starch
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with amyliferous
carboniferousseminiferouscruciferousmetalliferousfossiliferousodoriferousacetabuliferousacidiferousaeriferousaestiferousagatiferousalbuminiferousaliferousalkaliferousalumiferousaluminiferousamberiferousamentiferousammonitiferousamygdaliferousanatiferousangeliferousantenniferousantheriferous
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