a. rare1. [f. L. carn-em flesh + -FEROUS.] Flesh-bearing.
1841. L. Hunt, Seer (1864), 27. There is also a milk tree; but we nowhere find a carniferous, a flesh-bearing tree.
a. rare1. [f. L. carn-em flesh + -FEROUS.] Flesh-bearing.
1841. L. Hunt, Seer (1864), 27. There is also a milk tree; but we nowhere find a carniferous, a flesh-bearing tree.