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Definition of Polemoniaceous
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to or characteristic of plants of the family Polemoniaceae.
Definition of Polemoniaceous
1. a. Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Polemoniaceæ), which includes Polemonium, Phlox, Gilia, and a few other genera.
Definition of Polemoniaceous
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to the plant family Polemoniaceae. ¹
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Medical Definition of Polemoniaceous
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Polemoniaceous
Literary usage of Polemoniaceous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1898)
"We may also see in a study of polemoniaceous flowers how the varying rhythmic
strength influences the whole form of the flower, as well as the development ..."
2. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New by Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland (1827)
"The abb€ Cavanilles, in dedicating this genus of the family of the polemoniaceous
plants to Mr. Bonpland, had no knowledge of the memoir on the cortex ..."
3. Introduction to Structural and Systematic Botany and Vegetable Physiology by Asa Gray (1875)
"Under the microscope, these threads may be observed on the seeds of most
polemoniaceous plants, ..."
4. Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants by Joseph Paxton (1849)
"It is one of the most showy of all polemoniaceous plants, and its habit as s
shrub is very neat and compact ; the foliage is of the most lively green, ..."
5. Pittonia by Edward Lee Greene (1889)
"... experience of the easy variability of the corollas in West American polemoniaceous
plants may have warranted such a view of this plant and the next. ..."
6. Class Book of Botany: Being an Introduction to the Study of the Vegetable by John Hutton Balfour (1852)
"The seed of some polemoniaceous plants has a covering, consisting of small cells
or hairs containing spiral fibres inside. These hairs are closely applied ..."
7. Annals of Horticulture (1850)
"A genus of polemoniaceous shrubs of distinct habit and appearance. C.
dependens (Persoon), has the blossoms carmine, and is of sub-trailing habit ..."
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