polygonaceous
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of polygonaceous
1870–75; < New Latin Polygonace ( ae ) ( Polygon ( um ) the type genus (< Greek polýgonon knotgrass, literally, something with many joints; see poly-, knee, -gon) + -aceae -aceae ) + -ous
Example Sentences
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The melon-holes of the box-flats were frequently over-grown with the polygonaceous plant, mentioned at a former occasion; and the small scrub plains were covered with a grey chenopodiaceous plant from three to four feet high.
From Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 by Leichhardt, Ludwig
A stiff, wiry, leafless polygonaceous plant grows in the shallow depressions of the surface of the ground, which are significantly termed by the squatters "Melon-holes", and abound in the open Box-tree flats.
From Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 by Leichhardt, Ludwig
The species attack the flowers and anthers of composite and polygonaceous plants, the leaves, culms, and germen of grasses, &c., and are popularly known as “smuts.”
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)
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