DORSIFEROUS, DORSIPAROUS, adjective [Latin, the back; to bear.] In botany, bearing or producing seeds on the back of their leaves; an epithet given to ferns or plants of the capillary kind without stalks.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.