Definition of Crucifers

1. Noun. (plural of crucifer) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Crucifers

1. crucifer [n] - See also: crucifer

Lexicographical Neighbors of Crucifers

cruciate ligament of the atlas
cruciate ligaments of knee
cruciate muscle
cruciate sulci
cruciate sulcus
cruciation
cruciations
crucible
crucible steel
crucibles
crucifer
cruciferae
cruciferous
cruciferous plant
cruciferous vegetable
crucifers (current term)
crucifiction
crucifictions
crucified
crucifier
crucifiers
crucifies
crucifix
crucifix fish
crucifixes
crucifixion
crucifixionlike
crucifixions
crucifixlike
cruciform

Literary usage of Crucifers

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Fungous Diseases of Plants: With Chapters on Physiology, Culture Methods and by Benjamin Minge Duggar (1909)
"The club root, or club foot, is an unsightly and destructive root disease of crucifers which has been known in Europe for considerably more than a century. ..."

2. An Introduction to Bacterial Diseases of Plants by Erwin Frink Smith (1920)
"THE BLACK ROT OF crucifers Type.—This is a common vascular disease of cabbage, cauliflower, kohlrabi, kale, rape, turnips, and mustard. ..."

3. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1898)
"This behavior of the crucifers under artificial treatment with citric acid corresponds to certain general observations upon the growing of root crops in ..."

4. Nature by Nature Publishing Group, Norman Lockyer (1883)
"Compare, again, the mallows on the one hand with the peas on the other, or the docks with the crucifers. Throughout these intermediates, various stages can ..."

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