Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Carrying or bearing on the back; dorsigerous or dorsiferous.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Carrying or bearing upon the back.
  • adjective (Bot.) plants which bear their seeds on the back of their leaves, as ferns.

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