单词 | asclepiadaceous |
释义 | asclepiadaceous in British English (æˌskliːpɪəˈdeɪʃəs) adjective of, relating to, or belonging to the Asclepiadaceae, a family of mostly tropical and subtropical flowering plants, including the milkweed and swallowwort, having pollen in the form of a waxy mass (pollinium): now usually regarded as a subfamily of the Apocynaceae Word origin C19: from New Latin Asclēpias genus name, from Latin, from Greek asklēpias, named after Asclepiusasclepiadaceous in American English (æsˌklipiəˈdeɪʃəs) adjective belonging to the milkweed family of plants Derived forms asclepiad (asˈclepiˌad) (æsˈklipiˌæd) noun |
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