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Yielding platinum; as, platiniferous sand.

Producing or containing lead. Kirwan.

Producing pollen; polliniferous.

Producing pollen; polleniferous.

Bearing polyps, or polypites.

Bearing pomes, or applelike fruits.

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.

Bearing plums.

Having lungs; pulmonate.

Containing or producing pyrites.

Consisting chiefly of quartz; containing quartz.

Bearing racemes, as the currant.

Yielding resin; as, a resiniferous tree or vessel.

generating or producing dew. [R.]

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.]