NUCIFEROUS

adj. Nuas-iaf'ear-u8s. Lat., nuciferus (from nux, a nut, and/errc, to bear). Fr., nucifere. Ger., nus strag end. Bearing nuts. The Nuciferce of Batsch are an order of the Incompletce, consisting of the Thymel , Elceagnece, and Proteariae. [B, 170 (o, 35).] [s. 114]