† nelumbiaceousadj.
Botany. Obsolete. rare. Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
Designating the family of plants (now Nelumbonaceae) comprising the genus Nelumbo (formerly Nelumbium).
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nymphoidal1819
alismal1846
nymphal1846
nelumbiaceous1857
nelumboneous1857
hydral1866
1857 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Nelumbiaceus, applied by A. Richard to the family (Nelumbiaceæ..) of the Nelumboneæ of Lindley and Kunth: nelumbiaceous.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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