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One of the Rotifera. See Illust. in Appendix.

An order of minute worms which usually have one or two groups of vibrating cilia on the head, which, when in motion, often give an appearance of rapidly revolving wheels. The species are very numerous in fresh waters, and are very diversified in form and habits.

Producing sugar; as, sacchariferous canes.

Bearing a sac.

Producing, or impregnated with, salt. Saliferous rocks (Geol.), the New Red Sandstone system of some geologists; -- so called because, in Europe, this formation contains beds of salt. The saliferous beds of New York State belong largely to the Salina period of the Upper Silurian. See the Chart of Geology.…

Same as Saliferous.

Bringing health; healthy; salutary; beneficial; as, salutiferous air. [R.] Innumerable powers, all of them salutiferous. Cudworth.

Salutarily. [R.]

Conveying blood; as, sanguiferous vessels, i. e., the arteries, veins, capillaries.

One who scoffs. 2 Pet. iii. 3.

The act of scoffing; scoffing conduct; mockery. Holinshed.

Bearing a tuft of brushlike hairs.

Carrying a shield or buckler.

Any gorgonian which branches like a fern.

Producing fat; sebaceous; as, the sebiferous, or sebaceous, glands.

The Serrifera.

Containing, or impregnated with, selenium; as, seleniferous pyrites.

The fertilization of a flower by pollen from the same flower and without outer aid; autogamy.

Fertilized by pollen from the same flower.

Seminiferous.