Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Bearing grain, or seeds like grain: as, graniferous pods.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Bearing grain, or seeds like grain.
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- adjective Bearing
grain , orseeds like grain.
Etymologies
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Latin granifer; granum grain + ferre to bear: compare French granifère.
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Examples
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It is the original home of the whole graniferous stock.
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The country where its most northern branches take their rise, is elevated table land, abounding with marshes and lakes, that are filled with a graniferous vegetable called wild rice.
A New Guide for Emigrants to the West John Mason Peck 1823
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