“scitamineous”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

scitamineous

释义

scitamineous, a. Bot.|sɪtəˈmɪnɪəs|
Also scitaminous.
[f. mod.L. Scitamineæ (1810 R. Brown Prodr. 305, altered form of Scitamina neut. pl., the name given to this order by Linnæus 1751, suggested by L. scītāmenta: see prec.) + -ous.]
Of or pertaining to the Scitamineæ, a former order of monocotyledonous tropical plants, including the present orders Musaceæ and Zingiberaceæ.
1806W. Turton tr. Linn. Syst. Nat. VII. Expl. Terms, Scitamineous, of a spicy taste and odour.1818Colebrooke Import Colonial Corn 130 It is to be had..from yams, potatoes, arrow-roots,..orchideous roots and scitamineous.1824Loudon Encycl. Gard. (ed. 2) 930 Scitaminous, or Reedy Stove Plants.1851–9Hooker in Man. Sci. Enq. 426 Nothing is known of the origin of the scitamineous fruit to which the name Large Round China Cardamom has been given.1851Richardson Geol. (1855) 175 Palms and scitamineous plants.

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