a. [f. as prec. + -(I)FEROUS.] Bearing or conveying sperm.
1862. Ansted, Channel Isl., II. viii. 189. His specimens were covered with spermatiferous spermogones.
1865. M. C. Cooke, Microsc. Fungi, ii. 24. The colour of this spermatiferous matter is commonly orange.
