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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Bearing flowers, especially in abundance.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Producing flowers.

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

  • adjective Producing flowers.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective botany That bears flowers (especially lots of flowers)

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From Latin flōrifer, bearing flowers : flōs, flōr-, flower; see flower + -fer, -fer.]

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