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Bearing globules; in geology, used of rocks, and denoting a variety of concretionary structure, where the concretions are isolated globules and evenly distributed through the texture of the rock.

Having small clusters of minutely branched coral-like excrescences. M. C. Cooke.

Full of granulations.

Bearing, or composed of, lamellæ, or thin layers, plates, or scales; foliated.

Containing mammalian remains; -- said of certain strata.

Producing honey.

Producing metals; yielding metals.

Containing nickel; as, nickelferous iron.

Bearing an operculum.

Producing ovules.

Bearing petals.

Same as Mammalia.

Bearing a single slender bristle, or hair.

Pistillate.

To produce or form cells; especially, to produce cells rapidly.

The continuous development of cells in tissue formation; cell formation. Virchow.

Producing a cluster of branchlets from a larger branch; -- said of corals. Proliferous cyst (Med.), a cyst that produces highly- organized or even vascular structures. Paget. -- Pro*lif"er*ous*ly, adv.

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.…

Life for one's self; living solely or chiefly for one's own pleasure or good.

Producing soboles. See Illust. of Houseleek.