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‖ scrophularia Bot.|skrɒfjʊˈlɛərɪə| Also 7–8 scrof-, 7 schroph-. [mod.L. (sc. herba), f. med.L. scrophula scrofula: see -ary.] A genus of monopetalous plants (the fig-worts), typical of the N.O. Scrophulariaceæ; a plant of this genus.
[1527Andrew Brunswyke's Distyll. Waters B iv, Scrofularia in latyn. The best parte & tyme of his dystyllacyon is the rote wasshed, and the leues stroped fro the stalkes and so togyder dystylled.] 1663Boyle Usef. Exp. Nat. Philos. ii. v. viii. 192 Our Chymist told me he had made such Prima entia of Scrophularia. 1741Compl. Fam.-Piece ii. iii. 385 You have besides the scarlet Lichnis,..Spanish Scrophularia [printed Scorphularia], Larkspur. Hence scrophulariˈaceous a., belonging to the N.O. Scrophulariaceæ; scrophuˈlariad, a plant of this order.
1846Smart Suppl., Scrophulariaceous. 1866Treas. Bot. 126/2 Bartsia, unpretending annuals, belonging to Scrophulariads. 1884Athenæum 20 Sept. 375/2 The classification of the labiates, the scrophulariads, the Leguminosæ [etc.]. |