Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Bearing acorns or other nuts; producing nuts or mast: as, the beech and the oak are glandiferous trees.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Bearing acorns or other nuts.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Bearing
acorns or othernuts .
Etymologies
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Latin glandifer; glans, glandis, acorn + ferre to bear; compare French glandifère.
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Examples
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The beech, [_fagus_] (of two or three kinds) and numbred amongst the glandiferous trees, I rank here before the martial ash, because it commonly grows to a greater stature.
Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees John Evelyn 1663
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We do not exclude this useful tree from those of the glandiferous and forest; but being inclin’d to gratify the curious, I have been induc’d to say something farther of such _semper virentia_, as may be made to sort with those of our own, (especially of the next Chapter.)
Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees John Evelyn 1663
reesetee commented on the word glandiferous
Bearing acorns or other nuts; as a glandiferous tree.
November 20, 2007