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).
a. 1835. Lindley, Introd. Bot. (1848), I. 387. The inferior opening of the styliferous canal.
1878. Hooker, Stud. Flora (ed. 2), 78. The styliferous and placentiferous axis.
b. 1826. Kirby & Sp., Entomol., IV. xlvii. 370. Anus styliferous.
1871. T. R. Jones, Anim. Kingd. (ed. 4), 171. Nemertean Helminthozoa . Other glandular structures are in communication with the styliferous cavity.