dorsiferous

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

DORSIFEROUS, DORSIPAROUS, adjective [Latin , the back; to bear.] In botany, bearing or producing seeds on the back of their leaves; an epithet given to ferns or plants of the capillary kind without stalks.
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