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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.
1858in Mayne Expos. Lex. 1890in Cent. Dict. |