different between glomuliferous vs globuliferous

English

From Latin glomus (“a ball”) + -iferous.

glomuliferous (not comparable)

(biology) Having small clusters of minutely branched coral-like excrescences.
- 1848', Samuel Rowe, A Perambulation of the Antient and Royal Forest of Dartmoor
  The bright green and glomuliferous parmelia , and the resupinate nephroma , will be found on the rocks and trees in the immediate neighbourhood

glomuliferous in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

globule +? -ferous

globuliferous (comparative more globuliferous, superlative most globuliferous)

(geology) Bearing globules; of rocks, having a concretionary structure where the concretions are isolated globules evenly distributed through the texture of the rock.

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