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glomuliferous

glomuliferous adjective: having small clusters of minutely branched coral-like excrescences.

Adjective

glomuliferous (not comparable)

  1. Having small clusters of minutely branched coral-like excrescences.
    • The bright green and glomuliferous parmelia , and the resupinate nephroma , will be found on the rocks and trees in the immediate neighbourhood1848, Samuel Rowe, A Perambulation of the Antient and Royal Forest of Dartmoor

Origin of glomuliferous

From Latin glomus (“a ball”) + -iferous.

Questions about glomuliferous

What does glomuliferous mean?
Glomuliferous means having small clusters of minutely branched coral-like excrescences.
What part of speech is glomuliferous?
Glomuliferous is an adjective.

Words near glomuliferous in the dictionary

  1. glomps onto
  2. gloms
  3. gloms on
  4. gloms onto
  5. glomular
  6. glomuliferous
  7. glomus
  8. glomuvenous
  9. GLONASS
  10. glond
  11. glonoin

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