Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Bearing acorns or other nuts; producing nuts or mast: as, the beech and the oak are glandiferous trees.

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

  • adjective Bearing acorns or other nuts.

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  • adjective Bearing acorns or other nuts.

Etymologies

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Latin glandifer; glans, glandis, acorn + ferre to bear; compare French glandifère.

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Examples

  • The beech, [_fagus_] (of two or three kinds) and numbred amongst the glandiferous trees, I rank here before the martial ash, because it commonly grows to a greater stature.

    Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees John Evelyn 1663

  • We do not exclude this useful tree from those of the glandiferous and forest; but being inclin’d to gratify the curious, I have been induc’d to say something farther of such _semper virentia_, as may be made to sort with those of our own, (especially of the next Chapter.)

    Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees John Evelyn 1663

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  • Bearing acorns or other nuts; as a glandiferous tree.

    November 20, 2007