Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, bearing or producing spikes; spicate; eared.
- .—2. In ornithology, spurred; having spurs or calcars, as a fowl.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Bearing ears, or spikes; spicate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete Bearing
ears orspikes ;spicate .
Etymologies
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Latin spicifer bearing spikes or ears; spica ear + ferre to bear.
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