calamiferous

English

Etymology

From Latin calamus (“reed”) + -iferous. Compare New Latin calamifer, used in Botanical Latin and taxonomic names.

Adjective

calamiferous (comparative more calamiferous, superlative most calamiferous)

1. (rare, botany) Having or producing reeds.
   • 1700, The History of the Works of the Learned‎^[1], volume 2, number 8, page 509:

     In the next Section our Author Discourses concerning Culmiferous or Calamiferous Plants […]

   • 1879 August 14, Litchfield Enquirer, Litchfield, Connecticut, page 3:

     The thrifty farmer now puts on his rubber boots, and mows over his calamiferous grounds.

   • 1899, George Clarke Musgrave, Under Three Flags in Cuba, Boston, page 202:

     It began to rain; we had lost our trail, but we plunged forward through the calamiferous swamps and dense bush, seeking a place to camp.

   • 1903, Sven Hedin, Central Asia and Tibet: Towards the Holy City of Lassa‎^[2], volume 2, page 146:

     The watercourse in the Tarim basin is described in the following terms: "The river (Khotan-daria ?) runs northwards till it joins a confluent from the Tsung-ling (Onion range, in Sarikol), and then flows eastwards into the Pú-cháng-hai [蒲昌海] (lit. Calamiferous Lake), which is also called the Salt Marsh. This is over 300 li from the Yu gate and the Yang barrier, and is 300 li in length and breadth.

   • 2001, W. D. Jackson, R. J. E. Wiltshire, “Historical taxonomy and a resolution of the Stylidium graminifolium complex (Stylidiaceae) in Tasmania”, in Australian Systematic Botany, volume 14, number 6, →DOI, page 954:

     Scape 200–300 mm high, 1.0–1.5 mm in diameter at the base, cylindrical, calamiferous, walls about 0.2 mm thick, densely thickened internally and externally with fibrous tissue, glabrous at the base but becoming increasingly pilose in the upper half with stalked, multicellular hairs with globular terminal glands dark red, exuding a sticky mucilage.

References

• “calamiferous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.