polemoniaceous

adjective

of or pertaining to or characteristic of plants of the family Polemoniaceae

• Pertains to noun: ↑family Polemoniaceae

• Derivationally related forms: ↑Polemoniaceae

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adjective

see polemoniaceae

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/pol'euh moh'nee ay"sheuhs/, adj.

belonging to the Polemoniaceae, the phlox family of plants. Cf. phlox family.

[1855-60; < NL Polemoniace(ae) family name (see POLEMONIUM, -ACEAE) + -OUS]

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polemoniāˈceous adjective

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Main Entry: ↑polemonium

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polemoniaceous, a. Bot.

(pɒlɪməʊnɪˈeɪʃəs)

[f. mod. Bot. L. Polemōniāceæ (f. Polemōnium, a. Gr. πολεµώνιον the Greek Valerian, f. proper name Πολέµων, or, according to Pliny, from πόλεµος war): see -aceous.]

Of or belonging to the Polemoniaceæ, a family of herbaceous plants, chiefly natives of temperate countries, the typical genus of which, Polemonium, contains the Jacob's ladder or Greek Valerian, P. cæruleum.

in Mayne Expos. Lex. in Cent. Dict.