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Secreting nectar; -- said of blossoms or their parts.

Bearing niter; yielding, or containing, niter.

Bearing or yielding an odor; perfumed; usually, sweet of scent; fragrant; as, odoriferous spices, particles, fumes, breezes. Milton. -- O`dor*if"er*ous*ly, adv. --O`dor*if"er*ous*ness, n.

Producing oysters; containing oysters.

A grand division of the Invertebrata, including the sponges; -- called also Spongiæ, Spongida, and Spongiozoa. The principal divisions are Calcispongiæ, Keratosa or Fibrospongiæ, and Silicea.

One of the Polifera.

The Polifera.

generating or producing dew. [R.]

A division of pectinibranchiate gastropods, having the head prolonged into a snout which is not retractile.

Producing sugar; as, sacchariferous canes.

The Serrifera.

A division of Hymenoptera comprising the sawflies.

Causing sleep; somniferous; soporific. "Soporiferous medicine." Swift. --- Sop`o*rif"er*ous*ly, adv. -- Sop`o*rif"er*ous*ness, n.

Any one of numerous species of fossil brachipods of the genus Spirifer, or Delthyris, and allied genera, in which the long calcareous supports of the arms form a large spiral, or helix, on each side.

Bearing or producing spores.

st of emulation, either by intellectual or physical efforts. Doting about questions and strifes of words. 1 Tim. vi. 4. Thus gods contended -- noble strife -Who most should ease the wants of life. Congreve.

Contentious; discordant. The ape was strifeful and ambitious. Spenser.

Producing, or secreting, sweat; sudoriparous. Sudoriferous glands (Anat.), small convoluted tubular glands which are situated in the subcutaneous tissues and discharge by minute orifices in the surface of the skin; the sweat glands.

Producing or bearing frankincense.

Producing or bearing tubers.