Opuntiaceous
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Opuntiaceous is an adjective meaning (botany, rare, obsolete) Belonging to the family Opuntiaceae (now mostly subfamily Opuntioideae in Cactaceae).
Meaning
(botany, rare, obsolete) Belonging to the family Opuntiaceae (now mostly subfamily Opuntioideae in Cactaceae).
Example Sentences
Early illustrations of opuntiaceous seeds: in his famous "Cactaceae of the Boundary" Engelmann (1859) provided the plate reproduced on the next page illustrating seeds and embryos of various North American (platy-) opuntias and cylindropuntias.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include opiliaceous, onocleaceous, apocynaceous, olacaceous, ochnaceous, ophiostomataceous.
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