sebiferous
English edit
Etymology edit
Latin sebum (“tallow”) + -ferous.
Adjective edit
sebiferous (comparative more sebiferous, superlative most sebiferous)
- (botany) Producing vegetable tallow.
- (physiology) Producing fat; sebaceous.
- the sebiferous, or sebaceous, glands
Translations edit
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “sebiferous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)