Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Producing oil; yielding oil: as, oleiferous seeds.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Producing oil.

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  • adjective That produces oil

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  • Giving rise to oil, as certain seeds or hypha do.

    November 20, 2007