Usually means: Produces or carries spores; fertile.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. sporiferous: Merriam-Webster
  2. sporiferous: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. sporiferous: Wordnik
  4. sporiferous: Wiktionary
  5. sporiferous: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  6. sporiferous: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. sporiferous: Dictionary.com
  8. Sporiferous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. sporiferous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. Sporiferous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. sporiferous: FreeDictionary.org
  12. sporiferous: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  13. sporiferous: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. sporiferous: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (sporiferous)

▸ adjective:  (biology) Bearing or producing spores.

Similar:
sporuliferous, sporidiferous, sporebearing, sporophorous, sporular, sporogenous, sporogonic, sporous, sporophoric, sporangiferous, more...

Opposite:
asporous, non-sporiferous, non-spore producing

Types:
mossy, ferny, lichenous, seedy, spore-bearing, more...

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Similar:
sporuliferous, sporidiferous, sporebearing, sporophorous, sporular, sporogenous, sporogonic, sporous, sporophoric, sporangiferous, more...

Opposite:
asporous, non-sporiferous, non-spore producing

Types:
mossy, ferny, lichenous, seedy, spore-bearing, more...



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