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Definition of Liliaceous
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to or characteristic of plants of the family Liliaceae.
Definition of Liliaceous
1. a. Of or pertaining to a natural order of which the lily, tulip, and hyacinth are well-known examples.
Definition of Liliaceous
1. Adjective. (botany) of the Liliaceae family, which contains the lily, tulip and hyacinth ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Liliaceous
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Liliaceous
Literary usage of Liliaceous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Select Extra-tropical Plants Readily Eligible for Industrial Culture Or by Ferdinand von Mueller (1880)
"High mountains of Guatemala and Mexico, at an elevation of about 10000 feet.
One of the most gigantic and magnificent of all liliaceous or ..."
2. A Dictionary of Science, Literature, & Art: Comprising the Definitions and by George William Cox (1866)
"Some liliaceous plants secreto stimulating principles, which, in different degrees
of concentration, give their activity to onions, garlic, chives, ..."
3. New English and Italian Pronouncing and Explanatory Dictionary by John Millhouse, Ferdinando Bracciforti (1889)
"... un. sort of ancient com in йог- liliaceous, pertaining to -. -a, a. strewed with
lilies, ... liliaceous ..."
4. A Residence Among the Chinese: Inland, on the Coast, and at Sea. Being a by Robert Fortune (1857)
"liliaceous medicinal plant — " Cold water temple " — Start for Tsan-tsin ...
liliaceous ..."
5. The New American Botanist and Florist: Including Lessons in the Structure by Alphonso Wood (1889)
"3d, Rosaceous or rose-like corollas are composed of five short-clawed open petals;
as in the Rose (Pig. 57). •ith, liliaceous flowers, like the Lilies, ..."
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