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oleraceous, a.|ɒləˈreɪʃəs|
[f. L. (h)olerāce-us (f. (h)olus, (h)oler- pot-herb) + -ous.]
Of the nature of a pot-herb, or vegetable used in cookery; obtained from a pot-herb.
a1682Sir T. Browne Tracts 28 An herby and oleraceous vegetable. 1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) I. 487 The oleraceous and especially the mucilaginous demulcents. 1848Hardy in Proc. Berw. Nat. Club II. No. 6. 329 Caterpillars of various..moths that infest oleraceous plants.
†b. Belonging to the division Oleraceæ or Holeraceæ in Linnæus's proposed Natural System, corresponding to the Chenopodiaceæ and other apetalous Orders, and including various esculent herbs, as spinach, beet, etc. Obs.
1785Martyn Rousseau's Bot. xvii. (1794) 221 Among the Oleraceous plants in the natural orders of Linnæus, by other authors called Apetalous. Such are all the Goosefoots... Beet is very nearly allied to these... The Glassworts are also of this Oleraceous tribe. |