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Producing reeds or canes.

Bearing stars. [R.] Blount.

Gold-bearing; containing or producing gold. Whence many a bursting stream auriferous plays. Thomson. ~= pyrites, iron pyrites (iron disulphide), containing some gold disseminated through it.

Producing berries. " Bacciferous trees." Ray.

Bearing or producing acorns.

Producing balsam.

Having two anthers.

Bearing fruit twice a year.

Generating bile.

Containing bismuth.

Producing bitumen. Kirwan.

Having gills; branchiate; as, branchiferous gastropods.

Producing bulbs.

Bearing a byssus or tuft.

Producing reeds; reedy.

Lime-yielding; calciferous

Bearing producing, or containing calcite, or carbonate of lime. Calciferouse epoch (Geol.), and epoch in the American lower Silurian system, immediately succeeding the Cambrian period. The name alludes to the peculiar mixture of calcareous and siliceous characteristics in many of the beds. See the Diagram under Grology…

Producing or containing carbon or coal. Carboniferous age (Geol.), the age immediately following the Devonian, or Age of fishes, and characterized by the vegatation which formed the coal beds. This age embraces three periods, the Subcarboniferous, the Carboniferous, and Permian. See Age of acrogens, under Acrogen. --…

Bearing or producing cells.

Bearing or producing little cells.