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Definition of Fabaceous
1. a. Having the nature of a bean; like a bean.
Definition of Fabaceous
1. Adjective. Having the nature of a bean; like a bean. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fabaceous
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fabaceous
Literary usage of Fabaceous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore by Thomas Moore (1910)
"... fabaceous, and eke farinaceous, All clubbing their quotas to glut the oesophagus
Of this ever greedy and grasping ..."
2. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1918)
"... and only the type species on a fabaceous host from south Africa is yet known,
although Puccinia ..."
3. A German-English Dictionary for Chemists by Austin McDowell Patterson (1917)
"Schmetterlingsblütler, m. papilionaceous plant, fabaceous plant (such as the
bean, pea, etc.; not so wide a term as "leguminous plant"). schmettern, ..."
4. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"fabaceous, (fa-ba'-she-us) a. Having the nature of a beam. FABLE, (fa'-bl) ns A
feigned story intended to enforce some moral precept ; a fiction in general ..."
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