Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Bearing or producing nuts.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Bearing, or producing, nuts.
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- adjective Bearing or producing
nuts .
Etymologies
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Latin nux, nucis, nut + -ferous.
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Examples
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-- This nuciferous tree has been cultivated in England more for the value of the timber than for its fruit.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 281, November 3, 1827 Various
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Ornithologist, that "The jay is one of the most useful agents in the economy of nature, for disseminating forest trees and other nuciferous and hard-seeded vegetables on which they feed.
Excursions Henry David Thoreau 1839
reesetee commented on the word nuciferous
Bearing nuts.
No, the other kind.
November 20, 2007
bilby commented on the word nuciferous
Dagnabbit.
July 6, 2009