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Etymology

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Latin sebum (tallow) +‎ -ferous.

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Adjective

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sebiferous (comparative more sebiferous, superlative most sebiferous)

  1. (botany) Producing vegetable tallow.
  2. (physiology) Producing fat; sebaceous.
    the sebiferous, or sebaceous, glands

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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)