BACCIF'FEROUS, adjective [Latin baccifer, of bacca, a berry, and fero, to bear.] That produces berries. [See Bacca.] Bacciferous plants formerly included all such plants as have a pulpy fruit, whether of the apple, berry or cherry kind; but the modern systems of botany comprehend under this description such plants only as bear the pulpy pericarp, called bacca, or berry.
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