‖n. pl. [ NL. See Acetabuliferous. ] (Zool.) The division of Cephalopoda in which the arms are furnished with cup-shaped suckers, as the cuttlefishes, squids, and octopus; the Dibranchiata. See Cephalopoda. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. acetablum a little cup + -ferous. ] Furnished with fleshy cups for adhering to bodies, as cuttlefish, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. ala wing + -ferous. ] Having wings, winged; aligerous. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. amygdalum almond + -ferous. ] Almond-bearing. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. argilla white clay + -ferous. ] Producing clay; -- applied to such earths as abound with argil. Kirwan. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Generating bile. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cell + -ferous. ] Bearing or producing cells. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. cellula + -ferous. ] Bearing or producing little cells. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. chhlh` claw + -fer. ] (Zool.) See Book scorpion, under Book. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. chhlh` claw + -ferous. ] (Zool.) Having cheliform claws, like a crab. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Chyle + -ferous: cf. F. chylifère. ] (Physiol.) Transmitting or conveying chyle; as, chyliferous vessels. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. corallum coral + -ferous. ] Containing or producing coral. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cupule + -ferous: cf. F. cupulifère. ] Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the oak and the chestnut are examples, -- trees bearing a smooth, solid nut inclosed in some kind of cup or bur; bearing, or furnished with, a cupule. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. filum a thread + -ferous. ] Producing threads. Carpenter. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. folium leaf+ -ferous: cf. F. foliifère. ] Producing leaves. [ Written also foliiferous. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Fossil + -ferous. ] (Paleon.) Containing or composed of fossils. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gemmule + -ferous. ] Bearing or producing gemmules or buds. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. glandula gland + -ferous; cf. F. glandulifère. ] Bearing glandules. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Globule + -ferous. ] Bearing globules; in geology, used of rocks, and denoting a variety of concretionary structure, where the concretions are isolated globules and evenly distributed through the texture of the rock. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. glomus a ball + -ferous. ] (Biol.) Having small clusters of minutely branched coral-like excrescences. M. C. Cooke.

a. [ Granule + -ferous. ] Full of granulations. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Lamella + -ferous: cf. F. lamellifère. ] Bearing, or composed of, lamellae, or thin layers, plates, or scales; foliated. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Mammal + -ferous. ] (Geol.) Containing mammalian remains; -- said of certain strata. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. mellifer; mel, mellis, honey + ferre to bear. ] Producing honey. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. metallifer; metallum metal + ferre to bear: cf. F. métallifère. ] Producing metals; yielding metals. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Nickel + -ferous. ] Containing nickel; as, nickelferous iron. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Operculum + -ferous. ] (Zool.) Bearing an operculum. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Ovule + -ferous. ] (Biol.) Producing ovules. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Petal + -ferous. ] Bearing petals. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. See Piliferous. ] (Zool.) Same as Mammalia. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. pilus hair + -ferous: cf. F. pilifère. ] 1. Bearing a single slender bristle, or hair. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Beset with hairs. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pistil + -ferous: cf. F. pistillifère. ] (Bot.) Pistillate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who is opposed to voluntary abortion; one who is pro-life, especially an activist in the campaign to make abortion illegal. [ PJC ]

v. t. [ L. proles offspring + ferre to bear. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Biol.) To produce or form cells; especially, to produce cells rapidly. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) To produce zooids by budding. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Biol.) The continuous development of cells in tissue formation; cell formation. Virchow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) The production of numerous zooids by budding, especially when buds arise from other buds in succession. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. proles offspring + -ferous. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Bot.) Bearing offspring; -- applied to a flower from within which another is produced, or to a branch or frond from which another rises, or to a plant which is reproduced by buds or gemmæ. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) (a) Producing young by budding. (b) Producing sexual zooids by budding; -- said of the blastostyle of a hydroid. (c) Producing a cluster of branchlets from a larger branch; -- said of corals. [ 1913 Webster ]

Proliferous cyst (Med.), a cyst that produces highly-organized or even vascular structures. Paget. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Pro*lif"er*ous*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

a. [ L. sal salt + -ferous. ] Producing, or impregnated with, salt. [ 1913 Webster ]

Saliferous rocks (Geol.), the New Red Sandstone system of some geologists; -- so called because, in Europe, this formation contains beds of salt. The saliferous beds of New York State belong largely to the Salina period of the Upper Silurian. See the Chart of Geology. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. soboles + -ferous. ] (Bot.) Producing soboles. See Illust. of Houseleek. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Sporule + -ferous. ] (Biol.) Producing sporules. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. stellifer; stella star + ferre to bear. ] Having, or abounding with, stars. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Style + -ferous. ] (Bot.) Bearing one or more styles. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. ] (Zool.) Same as Suctoria, 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Tentaculum + -ferous. ] (Zool.) Producing or bearing tentacles. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL. See Umbelliferous. ] (Bot.) A plant producing an umbel or umbels. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A tasteless white crystalline substance, C9H6O3, found in the bark of a certain plant (Daphne Mezereum), and also obtained by the distillation of certain gums from the Umbelliferae, as galbanum, asafetida, etc. It is analogous to coumarin. Called also hydroxy-coumarin. Its strong fluorescence under ultraviolet light makes it useful in analytical biochemistry, as, for example, to detect phosphatase activity by hydrolysis of umbelliferyl phosphate. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

a. [ Umbel + -ferous: cf. F. ombellifère. ] (Bot.) (a) Producing umbels. (b) Of or pertaining to a natural order (Umbelliferae) of plants, of which the parsley, carrot, parsnip, and fennel are well-known examples. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. umbraculum umbrella (dim. of umbra shade) + -ferous. ] (Bot.) Bearing something like an open umbrella. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. velifer; velum a sail + ferre to bear. ] Carrying or bearing sails. [ Obs. ] “Veliferous chariots.” Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

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