Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CUL-MIF'ER-OUS, a. [L. culmus, a stalk, and fero, to bear.]

1. Bearing culms. Culmiferous plants have a smooth jointed stalk, usually hollow, and wrapped about at each joint with single, narrow, sharp-pointed leaves, and their seeds contained in chaffy husks, as wheat, rye, oats and barley. – Milne. Quincy.
2. Abounding in culm or slaty coal. – Sedgwick.