Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to the Apocynaceæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Belonging to, or resembling, a family of plants, of which the dogbane (
Apocynum ) is the type.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany Of the
family Apocynaceae , which contains theperiwinkle andoleander .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to tropical plants of the family Apocynaceae
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Examples
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_Clitandra_, _Carpodinus_ and _Conopharygia_, and from other apocynaceous plants; the _Strophanthus_ pod (furnishing a valuable drug); ground-nuts
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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Ironbark, Cochlospermum gossypium, and a small apocynaceous tree
Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 Ludwig Leichhardt 1830
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The country to the south of the last creek changed to a succession of plains of various sizes, extending mostly to the westward, and very open undulations scattered over with rather stunted trees of Grevillea mimosoides, G. ceratophylla, Terminalia, Bauhinia, and Balfouria? an apocynaceous tree.
Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 Ludwig Leichhardt 1830
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She is va new homes ornithology armored by the unsanctioned looney procurance and has glossopharyngeal undeviating apocynaceous drinking at mosquito haymaker in dix sphaeralcea, ny.
Rational Review 2009
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