calamiferous

comparative more calamiferous · superlative most calamiferous

1. rarebiologyHaving or producing reeds.

   The thrifty farmer now puts on his rubber boots, and mows over his calamiferous grounds.

   1879 August 14, Litchfield Enquirer, Litchfield, Connecticut, page 3

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   In the next Section our Author Discourses concerning Culmiferous or Calamiferous Plants[…]

   1700, The History of the Works of the Learned, volume 2, number 8, page 509

   It began to rain; we had lost our trail, but we plunged forward through the calamiferous swamps and dense bush, seeking a place to camp.

   1899, George Clarke Musgrave, Under Three Flags in Cuba, Boston, page 202

   The watercourse in the Tarim basin is described in the following terms: "The river (Khotan-daria ?) runs northwards till it joins a confluent from the Tsung-ling (Onion range, in Sarikol), and then flows eastwards into the Pú-cháng-hai [蒲昌海] (lit. Calamiferous Lake), which is also called the Salt Marsh. This is over 300 li from the Yu gate and the Yang barrier, and is 300 li in length and breadth.

   1903, Sven Hedin, Central Asia and Tibet: Towards the Holy City of Lassa, volume 2, page 146

   Scape 200–300 mm high, 1.0–1.5 mm in diameter at the base, cylindrical, calamiferous, walls about 0.2 mm thick, densely thickened internally and externally with fibrous tissue, glabrous at the base but becoming increasingly pilose in the upper half with stalked, multicellular hairs with globular terminal glands dark red, exuding a sticky mucilage.

   2001, W. D. Jackson, R. J. E. Wiltshire, “Historical taxonomy and a resolution of the Stylidium graminifolium complex (Stylidiaceae) in Tasmania”, in Australian Systematic Botany, volume 14, number 6, →DOI, page 954