glomuliferous
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin glomus (“a ball”) + -iferous.
Adjective edit
glomuliferous (not comparable)
- (biology) Having small clusters of minutely branched coral-like excrescences.
- 1848, Samuel Rowe, A Perambulation of the Antient and Royal Forest of Dartmoor:
- The bright green and glomuliferous parmelia , and the resupinate nephroma , will be found on the rocks and trees in the immediate neighbourhood
References edit
- “glomuliferous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.