Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Producing or secreting fatty, oily, or waxy matter; sebaceous.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In anat., bot., and zoology, sebaceous; sebiparous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Producing vegetable tallow.
- adjective (Physiol.) Producing fat; sebaceous.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany Producing
vegetable tallow . - adjective physiology Producing
fat ;sebaceous .
Etymologies
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Latin sebum tallow + -ferous.
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