Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Producing bark or something analogous to bark.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Producing bark or something that resembling that resembles bark.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Having a barklike c�nenchyms.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Producing
bark or something resembling bark.
Etymologies
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Latin cortex, corticis, bark + -ferous: compare French corticifère.
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Examples
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Until this corticiferous little cur explains why he is defending a fourth-class preacher who confesses to having foully insulted, by a base forgery, a motherless young girl committed to his care, the ICONOCLAST must, for the sake of its own self-respect, decline further controversy.
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