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单词 polemoniaceous
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polemoniaceousadj.

Brit. /ˌpɒlɪməʊnɪˈeɪʃəs/, U.S. /ˈˌpɑləˌmoʊniˈeɪʃəs/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: Polemonium n., -aceous suffix.
Etymology: < Polemonium n. + -aceous suffix, after scientific Latin Polemoniaceae, family name (J. Lindley Synopsis Brit. Flora (1829) 168, replacing earlier Polemonia (A. L. Jussieu Genera plantarum (1789) 136), Poleminidae (A. P. de Candolle & J. E. Duby Botanicon gallicum (ed. 2, 1828) I. 239)). Compare French polémoniacées, plural noun (1810 or earlier in Jussieu; earlier as †polémonacées, plural noun (1803)).
Botany.
Of or relating to the family Polemoniaceae of chiefly herbaceous plants native to Europe, Asia, and America (including phlox and gilia), the type genus of which is Polemonium.
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1858 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) 992/2 Polemoniaceus, applied to a Family..of plants established by Jussieu, having the Polemonium for their type: polemoniaceous.
1862 T. Moore Field Botanist's Compan. 105 The Greek Valerian, or Jacob's Ladder,..represents the Polemoniaceous family, better known in gardens by the fine hardy herbaceous genus Phlox.
1937 Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 64 521 It is admittedly difficult..to settle upon mutually exclusive generic characters in this polemoniaceous complex.
1998 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 85 741/2 A third type of problem has arisen recently from the analysis of polemoniaceous systematics by the new method of molecular cladistics.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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