Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of, or characteristic of, the plant-order Valerianeæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, plants of a natural order (Valerianaceæ) of which the valerian is the type. The order includes also the corn salads and the oriental spikenard.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the
flowering plant genus Valeriana .
Etymologies
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Valeriana + -aceous
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