guttiferous

English edit

Etymology edit

From guttifer +‎ -ous, from New Latin guttifera (“gum-bearing plant”), from Latin gutta (“drop”).

Adjective edit

guttiferous (not comparable)

(botany) Yielding gum or resinous substances.
(botany) Relating to a natural grouping of trees and shrubs (family Guttiferae, now Clusiaceae) that abound in resinous sap.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “guttiferous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)