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  1. pomiferousadjective

    Producing or bearing pomes

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Pomiferousadjective

    A term applied to plants which have the largest fruit, and are covered with thick hard rind, by which they are distinguished from the bacciferous, which have only a thin skin over the fruit.

    Etymology: pomifer, Lat.

    All pomiferous herbs, pumpions, melons, gourds and cucumbers, unable to support themselves, are either endued with a faculty of twining about others, or with claspers and tendrils whereby they catch hold of them. John Ray, on the Creation.

    Other fruits contain a great deal of cooling viscid juice, combined with a nitrous salt, such are many of the low pomiferous kind, as cucumbers and pompions. John Arbuthnot, on Aliments.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Pomiferousadjective

    bearing pomes, or applelike fruits

  2. Pomiferousadjective

    bearing fruits, or excrescences, more or less resembling an apple

  3. Etymology: [L. pomifer; pomum fruit + ferre to bear: cf. F. pomifre.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of pomiferous in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of pomiferous in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2


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