Dorsiferous: alternatives and connections

A suffix signifying bearing, producing, yielding; as, auriferous, yielding gold; chyliferous, producing chyle.

Having no seed lobes, as the dodder; also applied to plants which have no true seeds, as ferns, mosses, etc.

A genus of ferns (Ophioglossum), whose seeds are produced on a spike resembling a serpent's tongue.

The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb.

The act attaching, or state of being attached; close adherence or affection; fidelity; regard; an/ passion of affection that binds a p…

Pertaining to the Batrachia.

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Properly, the leaf, or flat part of the leaf, of any plant, especially of gramineous plants. The term is sometimes applied to the spir…

That which binds, ties, fastens, or confines, or by which anything is fastened or bound, as a cord, chain, etc.; a band; a ligament; a…

Abounding in, or resembling, chaff.

Charged with another bearing of the same figure, and of the color of the field, so large that only a narrow border of the first bearin…

The deep sensitive layer of the skin beneath the scarfskin or epidermis; -- called also true skin, derm, derma, corium, cutis, and end…

Producing electro-motion; producing, or tending to produce, electricity or an electric current; causing electrical action or effects.

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Bearing fruit on the back of the leaves, as ferns.

Having no aril; -- said of certain seeds, or of the plants producing them.

The organ formed by the combination or union into one body of stem and leaf, and often bearing the fructification; as, the frond of a…

Being or growing on the under side of a leaf, as the fruit dots of ferns.