comb. form of LIGULA in botanical terms, as liguliferous (see -FEROUS), liguliflorate, -florous (L. flōr-, flōs flower), ligulifolius (L. folium leaf), liguliform (see -FORM).
1855. Mayne, Expos. Lex., Liguliferus.… Applied by De Candolle to compound flowers which become double by the change of their corols into elongated little tongues or ligules; *liguliferous…. Ligulifloris … *liguliflorous. Ligulæfolius.… Having linear leaves, as the Eryngium ligulæfolium: *ligulifolious.
1888. Syd. Soc. Lex., *Liguliflorate, same as Liguliflorous. Liguliflorous, applied to the corona of the Compositæ when it is entirely composed of ligulate florets.
1826. Kirby & Sp., Entomol., IV. 312. *Liguliform, When it [tongue] emerges from the labium, is short, flat, and not concealed within the mouth.
1880. Gray, Struct. Bot., 418/2.
