a. Bot. rare. [f. mod.L. succiferus, f. succus: see SUCCUS and -FEROUS.] Producing or bearing sap.
1655–87. H. More, App. Antid. (1712), 232. The modern Philosophers … who have not only observ’d the succiferous but also airiferous vessels of Plants.
1672–3. Grew, Anat. Pl., Roots (1682), 70. The Lignous Part, if not always, yet usually, is also Compounded of Two Kinds of Bodies, scil. Succiferous or Lignous and Aer-Vessels.
