biferousadj.
/ˈbɪfərəs/ 1. Botany. Bearing fruit or flowers twice in a year.
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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > fruit or reproductive product > plant that bears fruit > [adjective] > bearing fruit or fruitful > many or spec. number of times
biferous1656
multiferous1656
triferous1656
monocarpous1830
polycarpous1832
sychnocarpous1832
monocarpic1849
polycarpic1849
monocarpian1856
polytocous1879
monotocous1880
hapaxanthic1893
pollakanthic1909
pollakanthous1965
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Biferous, that bears fruit twice a yeere.
a1682 Sir T. Browne Certain Misc. Tracts (1683) i. 70 Some are biferous and triferous, which bear twice or thrice in the year.
2. Crystallography (see quot.)
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1816 R. Jameson Treat. External Characters Minerals (ed. 2) 215 Biferous (bifere), when every angle and edge suffers two decrements. Example, Biferous grey copper-ore.
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