Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of the order Santalaceæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Santalaceæ), of which the genus Santalum is the type, and which includes the buffalo nut and a few other North American plants, and many peculiar plants of the southern hemisphere.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany Relating to the
flowering plant family Santalaceae.
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Examples
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PUBESCENS, but perfectly distinct. 98 At the foot of them, was found the AOTUS MOLLIS, a little hoary bush, with yellow black flowers; a santalaceous plant like CHORETRUM, forming a tree fifteen or twenty feet high: the CALLITRIS GLAUCA or CUPRESSUS
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003
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**] At the foot of them, was found the AOTUS MOLLIS, a little hoary bush, with yellow black flowers; a santalaceous plant like CHORETRUM, forming a tree fifteen or twenty feet high: the CALLITRIS GLAUCA or CUPRESSUS GLAUCA of
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia Thomas Mitchell 1823
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