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Definition of Araceous
1. Adjective. Relating to a plant of the family Araceae.
Category relationships: Botany, Phytology
Partainyms: Araceae, Araceae
Derivative terms: Araceae, Aroid
Definition of Araceous
1. a. Of or pertaining to an order of plants, of which the genus Arum is the type.
Definition of Araceous
1. Adjective. (botany) Of or relating to an order of plants, of which the genus ''Arum'' is the type. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Araceous
1. belonging to the arum family of plants [adj]
Medical Definition of Araceous
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Araceous
Literary usage of Araceous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions by Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society, Norwick Eng, Thomas Southwell, Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society (1894)
"... a starchy substance prepared from the root of an araceous plant, Colocaria
esculenta, and which makes very good puddings when baked with eggs and sugar ..."
2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1906)
"The author recognizes seven types of api- cally dehiscent anthers and designates
them as araceous, gramineous, ..."
3. Proceedings by Royal Colonial Institute (Great Britain) (1895)
"It is: " Gallants wear about their person, in some places, a heavy-smelling,
small araceous plant, which is supposed to exercise on the softer sex an ..."
4. Origin of Cultivated Plants by Alphonse de Candolle (1885)
"This araceous plant, which Schott pla.ces now in the genus Colocasia, now in the
Alocasia, and whose names are far more complicated than might be supposed ..."
5. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1863-1871), Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1905)
"... compared with those which do fall clearly into one of the recognized classes.
The classes recognized have been designated as the araceous, Gramineous, ..."
6. Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1907)
"... by the extremely elongated intestinal canal, is many times folded -opon itself.
It is said to be fond of the leaves of several araceous plants. ..."
7. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Tasteby Luther Tucker by Luther Tucker (1852)
"... similar to what has been observed to ocean in Ca- ladium and other araceous
plants. M. Otto, of Hamburgh, has observed that a thermometer plunged into ..."
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