calliferous

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/kəˈlɪfəɹəs/

adjective

Bearing or producing calluses.

OriginNew Latin callifer →
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Meanings

adjectivecalliferous (not comparable)
  1. not comparableBearing or producing calluses.
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    Rumex (Lapathum) Daiwoo (Sieb.) Makino nom. nov. Inner perianth 3, erect-patent, longer than the outer ones, glabrous, herbaceous; lobes broadly oblong, obtuse, membranaceous and more or less minutely erose on the margin, with anastomosing veins, 2½-3 mm. long, after anthesis gradually enlarged and tinged with rose-colour, in fruit deltoid-ovate to ovate-reniform, minutely denticulate on the margin, obtuse, subcrispate, reticulated-veined, 4–8 mm. wide, the midrib narrowly prominent below but not calliferous, or sometimes hardly and minutely unicalliferous.

    1901, Tomitaro Makino, Observations on the flora of Japan. Fasciculus 1. Reprinted from the Botanical Magazine, Tokyo Vol. XV. 1901, Tokyo, page 52

Origin

  1. New Latincallifer
  2. Englishcalliferous

Borrowed from New Latin callifer, equivalent to callus + -i- + -ferous.

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