a. Also erron. foliferous. [f. as prec. + -FEROUS.] Bearing leaves or leaf-like appendages. Foliiferous staff: a pastoral staff decorated with figures of buds or leaves.
1828. Webster, Foliferous, producing leaves.
1857. Berkeley, Cryptog. Bot., § 34. 48. A true embryo, with the radicular end pointing one way, and the foliiferous end another.
1876. Axel Blytt, Norwegian Flora, 54. The tender foliferous trees in the Danish forest bogs, are not found in the deepest peat strata, which seems to indicate that the deepest strata were formed before the immigration of the oak and the hazel.
