Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to an ensign or standard.
  • In botany, same as vexillary, 2.
  • In ornithology, of or pertaining to the vane, web. or vexillum of a feather.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • Of or pertaining to an ensign or standard.
  • (Bot.) Of or pertaining to the vexillum, or upper petal of papilionaceous flowers.
  • (Bot.) a mode of æstivation in which one large upper petal folds over, and covers, the other smaller petals, as in most papilionaceous plants.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Of or relating to an ensign or standard.
  • adjective botany Of or relating to the vexillum, or upper petal of papilionaceous flowers.

Etymologies

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Compare French vexillaire, Latin vexillarius a standard-bearer.

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