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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[Gr.

ἐπί

φύλλον

leaf +

σπέρμα

seed.]

(Bot.)

Bearing fruit on the back of the leaves, as ferns.

Harris (1710).

Adj.

[Gr. a leaf, and seed.] In botany, bearing their seeds on the back of the leaves, as ferns.

epiphyllospermous ‎(not comparable)

(obsolete, botany) That bears seeds on the backs of the leaves
- 1843 Charles Knight, George Long - The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge
  EPIPHYLLOSPERMOUS PLANTS, so called by the old botanists, because they bore their seed upon the back of their leaves. They are what have more recently been called dorsiferous ferns.