Usually means: Bearing or having a back.
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  1. dorsiferous: Merriam-Webster
  2. dorsiferous: Collins English Dictionary
  3. dorsiferous: Wordnik
  4. dorsiferous: Wiktionary
  5. dorsiferous: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. Dorsiferous, dorsiferous: Dictionary.com
  7. Dorsiferous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. dorsiferous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. Dorsiferous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. dorsiferous: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. dorsiferous: FreeDictionary.org
  12. dorsiferous: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. dorsiferous: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (dorsiferous)

adjective:  (biology) Bearing, or producing, on the back; applied to ferns which produce seeds on the back of the leaf, and to certain frogs, whose ova become attached to the skin of the parent's back, where they develop.

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