Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Bearing flowers.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Producing flowers.
Wiktionary
- adj. botany That bears flowers (especially lots of flowers)
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Producing flowers.
Etymologies
- From Latin flōrifer, bearing flowers : flōs, flōr-, flower; see flower + -fer, -fer. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Tirelessly floriferous, its blooms complementing every other color in the garden.”
“The petunias and begonias that shoppers see in big-box retailers every spring may look garden-variety to untrained eyes, but they are special breeds that survive a grueling gantlet of field tests and focus groups to weed out their less hardy or floriferous brethren.”
“The huge King Kong is 40″ tall and red, the lucious Watermelon is suppose to be one of the most floriferous bloomeers at 27″ tall.”
“Everywhere are glad tidings and jubilation at the arrival of this month, the most floriferous of them all.”
Greetings From Fairegarden-April Bloom Day 2010 « Fairegarden
“These are beautiful and floriferous, woody-stemmed small shrubs.”
“Zagreb, while not the lovely light buttery yellow of Moonbeam is a darker yellow but so much more floriferous for us.”
“Although not required, plants may be cut back in early June at least six weeks before normal flowering to reduce plant height and to encourage branching, thus leading to a more floriferous bloom, healthier foliage and less need for support.”
“The daisies by the mailbox are the most floriferous plants at the moment.”
“The Clematis is Betty Corning, the most floriferous I have.”
“This is the most floriferous of all the roses here.”
The Six Degrees Of Favorite Plants-SL Blogathon « Fairegarden
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘floriferous’.
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phrontistery - f
from phrontistery.info
fustilarian, fusillation, fustian, futurology, fusiform, futurition, fusee, fuscous, fusain, furunculoid, futtock, furibund and 418 more...
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azd's Words
adamantine, abatial, ablate, ablative, abrogate, accretive, acromegaly, acrostic, actinism, actinic, acuity, adduce and 968 more...
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Bearing and Carrying
Words with the -fer suffix ("that which carries") or the -ferous suffix ("bearing," "producing," or "yielding").
aligerous, aluminiferous, antenniferous, argentiferous, armigerous, arundiferous, auriferous, bacciferous, balaniferous, barbigerous, belliferous, brachiferous and 187 more...
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Carry Me Home
Another kind of bear list: words bearing the -fer suffix ("that which carries"), the -ferous suffix ("bearing," "producing," or "yielding").
Also see (if you like) Carry Me Home Again.aquifer, conifer, umbellifer, transfer, thurifer, defer, telfer, suffer, rotifer, refer, foraminifer, poriferous and 157 more...
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Words.
W o r d s.
solace, andante, rueful, peccable, feign, deprehend, coarse, longueur, saudade, wanderlust, oblivion, inure and 30 more...
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word set10
superstring, nonrepudiation, sandboxed, trojan horse, bandoliers, transmutation, antiauthoritarian, connubiality, flagelliform, appellative, camphoraceous, bollixed and 61 more...
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Pleasing to the ears. (alphabetical.)
Words that seem to roll right off the tongue and into the ear.
amalgamation, bedlam, colloquial, decadence, ephemeral, floriferous, galvanize, heirophant, ionophoresis, joviality, kaleidoscopic, luminescent and 14 more...
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