Meaning

(rare, botany) Having or producing reeds..

Example Sentences

In the next Section our Author Discourses concerning Culmiferous or Calamiferous Plants[…]

The thrifty farmer now puts on his rubber boots, and mows over his calamiferous grounds.

It began to rain; we had lost our trail, but we plunged forward through the calamiferous swamps and dense bush, seeking a place to camp.

The watercourse in the Tarim basin is described in the following terms: "The river (Khotan-daria ?) runs northwards till it joins a confluent from the Tsung-ling (Onion range, in Sarikol), and then flows eastwards into the Pú-cháng-hai [蒲昌海] (lit. Calamiferous Lake), which is also called the Salt Marsh. This is over 300 li from the Yu gate and the Yang barrier, and is 300 li in length and breadth.

Scape 200–300 mm high, 1.0–1.5 mm in diameter at the base, cylindrical, calamiferous, walls about 0.2 mm thick, densely thickened internally and externally with fibrous tissue, glabrous at the base but becoming increasingly pilose in the upper half with stalked, multicellular hairs with globular terminal glands dark red, exuding a sticky mucilage.

Word Forms

• more calamiferous
• most calamiferous

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Use calamiferous when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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