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Definition of Plumbaginaceous
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to or characteristic of plants of the family Plumbaginaceae.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Plumbaginaceous
Literary usage of Plumbaginaceous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1869)
"A genus of plumbaginaceous plants, growing in the neighbourhood of the sea or of
salt-springs, and containing considerable quantities of ..."
2. Lectures on the Physiology of Plants by Sydney Howard Vines (1886)
"Similar scales occur also on the leaves and herbaceous stems of various
plumbaginaceous plants, ..."
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