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EnglishTHE SCHOLAR'S LEXICON

cruciferous

/kroo-sif-er-uhs/US // kruˈsɪf ər əs //UK // (kruːˈsɪfərəs) //

十字花科的,十字花科,十字花科类,十字花科植物

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : bearing a cross.
    • : Botany. belonging to the family Cruciferae, the mustard family of plants; brassicaceous: Are you getting enough broccoli, cauliflower, and other cruciferous vegetables in your diet?

Examples

  • The soil is clayey, and thinly bestrewed with alpine grass, intermingled with syngenesious and cruciferous plants.

  • Its caterpillar lives near the regions of perpetual snow, on small cruciferous plants.

  • Scur′viness, state of being scurvy: meanness; Scur′vy-grass, a genus of cruciferous plants, efficacious in curing scurvy.

  • Eight hundred fathoms broad at this point, the Niger flowed between banks richly grown with cruciferous plants and tamarind-trees.

  • The cruciferous, or cress-like tribes afford one-seventh of the species, and the compound flowers are nearly as numerous.

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