Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to or having the characters of the Verbenaceæ.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Bot.) Of or pertaining to a natural order (Verbenaceæ) of gamopetalous plants of which Verbena is the type. The order includes also the black and white mangroves, and many plants noted for medicinal use or for beauty of bloom.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective botany Of or relating to the Verbenaceae, a family of mainly tropical flowering plants.

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  • It is a verbenaceous plant widely found in Rwanda where it is known as "umuhengeri".

    Chapter 12 1991

  • This is the Lantana mixta, a verbenaceous plant introduced from the West Indies, which appears to have found in Ceylon

    Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

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