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English
Etymology
From Latin amylum (“starch”) + -iferous.
Pronunciation
Adjective
amyliferous (comparative more amyliferous, superlative most amyliferous)
- Bearing or producing starch.
1897, Alfred J. Ewart, “Further Observations upon Assimilatory Inhibition”, in The Journal of the Linnean Society, volume 31, number 219, London, page 565:The amyliferous leaf-cells seem to contain no chloroplastids; the mass of starch grains with which the cell is filled may either be colourless or have a distinctly yellowish or occasionally brownish tinge.
Translations
bearing or producing starch