Bearing or producing acorns; describing plants or trees that yield acorns.
From Latin 'balanus' (acorn) plus '-ferous' (bearing or producing). The term describes the reproductive capacity of oak trees and similar plants.
Oak trees that reliably produce tons of acorns are balaniferous—and a single oak can produce thousands of acorns in a good year, which is why squirrels obsess over them and why acorns shaped human history.
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