Floriferous
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 That bears flowers (especially lots of flowers).
"So floriferous are Asian pears, and the tree so laden with young fruit, that as the tree approaches maturity it is worth considering thinning the fruit (I can't quite bring myself to thin the flowers) so as to neither overburden the tree for this year nor tire it for the next."
Example
More examples"So floriferous are Asian pears, and the tree so laden with young fruit, that as the tree approaches maturity it is worth considering thinning the fruit (I can't quite bring myself to thin the flowers) so as to neither overburden the tree for this year nor tire it for the next."
Etymology
From Latin flos, floris + -i- + -ferous.
More for "floriferous"
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.