vitiferous

comparative more vitiferous · superlative most vitiferous

1. Full of or pertaining to vines, especially grape vines.

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

   1958, Acta agronomica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae

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   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.

   1793, Thomas Cogan, The Rhine: Or, a Journey from Utretch [sic] to Francfort, page 334

   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.

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