dorsiferous

English

Etymology

From dorsi- +‎ -ferous; compare French dorsifère.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɪfəɹəs

Adjective

dorsiferous (not comparable)

  1. (biology) Bearing, or producing, on the back; applied to ferns which produce seeds on the back of the leaf, and to certain frogs, whose ova become attached to the skin of the parent's back, where they develop.
    Synonym: dorsigerous

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “dorsiferous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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