The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
glandiferous — bearing acorns or nuts Bearing and Carrying … Phrontistery dictionary
glandiferous — adj. bearing acorns or nuts … English contemporary dictionary
glandiferous — glandifˈerous adjective Bearing acorns or nuts • • • Main Entry: ↑gland … Useful english dictionary
Bearing and Carrying — The following table is a relatively complete listing of words relating to the bearing, exuding, carrying, emitting, or containing of things by other things. Note that almost all of them end in ferous or gerous (from the Latin ferre and gerere,… … Phrontistery dictionary
glandiform — a. acorn shaped. ♦ glandiferous, a. bearing acorns … Dictionary of difficult words
-ferous — comb. form (usu. iferous) forming adjectives with the sense bearing , having (auriferous; odoriferous). Derivatives: ferously suffix ferousness suffix Etymology: from or after F fegravere or L fer producing f. ferre bear * * * ferous, suffix… … Useful english dictionary
