Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, bearing fruit upon the back: applied to certain groups of ferns which produce fruit upon the lower surface or back of the fronds.
- In zoology, hatching young upon the back, as certain toads do.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Biol.) Same as
dorsiferous .
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- adjective
dorsiferous
Etymologies
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dorsum + Latin parere to bring forth.
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