Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to the plant-order Sterculiaceæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Of or pertaining to a natural order (Sterculiaceæ) of polypetalous exogenous plants, mostly tropical. The cacao (
Theobroma Cacao ) is the most useful plant of the order.
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- adjective botany Of or relating to the
Sterculiaceae , a former name forMalvaceae ofpolypetalous exogenous plants , mostlytropical , including thecocoa plant.
Etymologies
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Latin Sterculia, the typical genus, from Latin Sterculius the deity that presided over manuring, from stercus dung. So called because one of the original species has a foetid smell.
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