a. Bot. and Zool. [f. mod.L. stylifer, f. styl-us STYLE sb.: see -FEROUS.] Bearing a style or styles. a. Bot. (see STYLE sb. 8). b. Zool. (see STYLE sb. 10).

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  a.  1835.  Lindley, Introd. Bot. (1848), I. 387. The inferior opening of the styliferous canal.

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1878.  Hooker, Stud. Flora (ed. 2), 78. The styliferous and placentiferous axis.

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  b.  1826.  Kirby & Sp., Entomol., IV. xlvii. 370. Anus styliferous.

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1871.  T. R. Jones, Anim. Kingd. (ed. 4), 171. Nemertean Helminthozoa…. Other glandular structures … are in communication with the styliferous cavity.

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