English edit

Etymology edit

From Latin granifer, from granum (grain) + ferre (to bear). Compare French granifère.

Adjective edit

graniferous (not comparable)

  1. Bearing grain, or seeds like grain.
    • 1806, Carl Linnaeus, A General System of Nature:
      Flowers hermaphrodite ; valves ovate , entire , all of them graniferous

References edit

graniferous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.