Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Septiferous

Septiferous , adjective

[Septum + -ferous: compare French septifère.]

(Botany) Bearing a partition; -- said of the valves of a capsule.

Septiferous , adjective

[Greek {not transcribed} putrefied + -ferous.]

Conveying putrid poison; as, the virulence of septiferous matter.