Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Belonging or relating to the natural order Melastomaceæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Belonging to the order of which Melastoma is the type.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany Belonging to the
order of which Melastoma is thetype .
Etymologies
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Melastoma + -aceous
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Examples
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He says he has had a letter from you about Melastoma, but has not, he says, for three years seen a single melastomaceous plant!
Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 James Marchant
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He says he has had a letter from you about Melastoma, but has not, he says, for three years seen a single melastomaceous plant!
Alfred Russel Wallace Letters and Reminiscences Marchant, James 1916
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