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单词 vexillarious
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vexillariousadj.

Origin: Probably a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: vexillary adj.
Etymology: Probably an alteration (after adjectives in -arious suffix) of vexillary adj. (compare sense 2 at that entry).Compare scientific Latin vexillarius (1864 and 1867 in specific epithets of plants, so named as having flowers likened to flags).
Botany. Obsolete. rare. Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
Of aestivation: having the petals arranged so that the large, posterior vexillum encloses the other, smaller petals of the corolla. Cf. vexillary adj. 2.
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1875 R. Fowler Med. Vocab. (ed. 2) 526/2 Vexillarious,..applied to Æstivation, when of the parts of the floral integuments, being five in number, the most external embraces all the rest, two intermediary are directly opposed to each other, and two interior are equally so.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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