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单词 orontiaceous
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orontiaceousadj.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combining with an English element. Etymons: Latin Orontiaceae , -ous suffix.
Etymology: < scientific Latin Orontiaceae (R. Brown Prodomus Florae Novae Hollandiae (1810) 337; < Orontium , genus name (Linnaeus Species Plantarum (1753) I. 324, apparently after earlier use by L. J. Chenon Nova Plantarum Genera (1751) 27; perhaps < Hellenistic Greek ὀρόντιον the name of a plant, perhaps associated with the Syrian river Orontes ) + -aceae : see -aceous suffix) + -ous suffix. N.E.D. (1903) gives the pronunciation as (orǫntiˌēi·ʃəs) /ɒrɒntɪˈeɪʃəs/.
Botany. Obsolete.
Belonging to or characteristic of the Orontiaceae, a group of plants based on the North American genus Orontium, once regarded as a family but now included in the family Araceae.
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1857 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Orontiàceus, applied to a tribe..of the Aroideæ..having the Orontium for their type: orontiaceous.
1862 T. Moore Field Botanist's Compan. 124 The first of these [groups] is represented by the Sweet Flag, by some referred to the Araceous family, but more fittingly associated with that of the Orontiaceous plants.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. Dragon, Dracunculus vulgaris; also applied to the orontiaceous genus Dracontium.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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