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‖ Volkaˈmeria Bot.
Also Volc-.
[mod.L., f. the name of Johann G. Volckamer, a German botanist (1616–93).]
A Linnean genus of verbenaceous shrubs, characterized by their fleshy or corky fruit; a shrub or plant of this genus.
1753Chambers' Cycl. Suppl., Volkameria, in botany, the name of a genus of plants... The fruit is a roundish bilocular capsule. 1823Crabb Technol. Dict. s.v., The species are shrubs, as—Volkameria aculeata,..Prickly Volkameria, &c. 1833Baroness Bunsen in Hare Life (1879) I. ix. 403, I have replanted with roses, oleanders, volcamerias, and geraniums. 1866Treas. Bot. 1225. |