单词 | portulacaceous |
释义 | portulacaceousadj. Botany. Of, relating to, or characteristic of the plant family Portulacaceae, which includes the purslanes. ΚΠ 1853 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci. Lit. & Art 1234 Tetragonia.., is a genus of herbaceous plants of the Portulacaceous order, with four-cornered fruit. 1867 Amer. Naturalist 1 322 Specimens of Lewisia rediviva, a Portulacaceous plant, large-flowered and fleshy, growing in British Columbia, Oregon, and California, will grow, although they have been dried and in the herbarium for two or three years. 1975 Brittonia 27 197 The generic name [Calyptridium] is derived from a characteristic of the corolla, which closes over the top of the ovary after flowering and is subsequently torn off at the base to form a cap or calyptra over the developing fruit, a feature shared with several other portulacaceous genera. 1996 Systematic Bot. 21 188/2 Rauh and Schölch..considered two portulacaceous genera..as a bridge between Didiereaceae and Portulacaceae, mostly on floral/inflorescence characters. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1853 |
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