Producing or bearing two kinds of growth or fruit; specifically used in botany to describe plants that produce two crops or generations per year.
From 'bi-' (two) + Latin '-ferous' (bearing/producing). The botanical term describes plants capable of producing multiple yields within a single growing season.
Some fig trees are famously 'biferous'—they produce fruit twice a year, which made them incredibly valuable in ancient Mediterranean agriculture and might explain why figs appear so frequently in ancient texts and religious symbolism.
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