verbenaceousadj.
/ˌvəːbᵻˈneɪʃəs/, U.S. /ˌvərbəˈneɪʃəs/ Botany.
Of, relating to, or characteristic of the family Verbenaceae, comprising herbaceous plants, shrubs, and a few trees and lianas, native mainly to warm regions of the Americas and Asia.These plants are often aromatic and typically have simple leaves and racemes, cymes, or heads of tubular (salverform) flowers.
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verbenaceous1836
1836 G. Bentham Labiatarum Genera et Species p. xv Cloanthes has been instanced by Mr. Brown as having the habit of Labiatæ, with the characters of Verbenaceæ; and Hoslundia, on the contrary, as being Verbenaceous in habit, with Labiate characters.
a1845 W. Griffith Jrnl Trav. Assam (1847) 213 I..gathered at 4,000 feet a Verbenaceous shrub, looking like a Plumbago, and a Bœhmeria.
1883 Encycl. Brit. XV. 481/2 The ‘white mangrove’ Avicennia, a verbenaceous plant.
1942 Auk 59 2 The showy flower-sprays of the verbenaceous climbing purple-wreath (Petrea arborea) were a familiar sight.
1966 New Phytologist 65 317 The thick-walled upper epidermal glands..are similar to those found in certain Verbenaceous genera.
2016 D. H. Janzen & W. Hallwachs in M. Kappelle Costa Rican Ecosystems x. 334/2 Gmelina arborea is a verbenaceous southeast Asian tree grown for cardboard fiber and cheap lumber.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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