glomuliferous

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adjective

Having small clusters of minutely branched coral-like excrescences.

OriginLatin glomus →
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Meanings

adjectiveglomuliferous (not comparable)
  1. not comparablebiologyHaving small clusters of minutely branched coral-like excrescences.

    The bright green and glomuliferous parmelia , and the resupinate nephroma , will be found on the rocks and trees in the immediate neighbourhood

    1848, Samuel Rowe, A Perambulation of the Antient and Royal Forest of Dartmoor

Origin

  1. Latinglomus“a ball”
  2. Englishglomuliferous

From Latin glomus (“a ball”) + -iferous.

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Chicago

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