† bignonialadj.
Botany. Obsolete.
In J. Lindley's terminology: designating or belonging to an alliance including the families Bignoniaceae, Cyrtandraceae (later Gesneriaceae), and Pedaliaceae.
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1840 Hooker's Jrnl. Bot. 2 424 Its unimbricated calyx, unsymmetrical flowers, and ex-albuminous seeds..place it [sc. Crescentia cuneifolia] in the Bignonial alliance.
1846 J. Lindley Veg. Kingdom 669 Pedaliaceæ... Bignonial Exogens, with parietal placentæ.
1881 P. Henderson Handbk. Plants 359/2 Gesneraceæ.., a natural order of corollifloral Dicotyledons belonging to Lindley's Bignonial Alliance of perigynous Exogens.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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