calliferous en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /kəˈlɪfəɹəs/
Etymology
Borrowed from New Latin callifer, equivalent to callus + -i- + -ferous.
Meanings
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(normally botany or entomology, not-comparable) Bearing or producing calluses.
Rumex (Lapathum) Daiwoo (Sieb.) Makino nom. nov. Inner perianth 3, erect-patent, longer than the outer ones, glabrous, herbaceous; lobes broadly oblong, obtuse, membranaceous and more or less minutely erose on the margin, with anastomosing veins, 2½-3 mm. long, after anthesis gradually enlarged and tinged with rose-colour, in fruit deltoid-ovate to ovate-reniform, minutely denticulate on the margin, obtuse, subcrispate, reticulated-veined, 4–8 mm. wide, the midrib narrowly prominent below but not calliferous, or sometimes hardly and minutely unicalliferous.
1901, Tomitaro Makino, Observations on the flora of Japan. Fasciculus 1. Reprinted from the Botanical Magazine, Tokyo Vol. XV. 1901, Tokyo, page 52: