Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Carrying or bearing on the back; dorsigerous or dorsiferous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Carrying or bearing upon the back.
- adjective (Bot.) plants which bear their seeds on the back of their leaves, as ferns.
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