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 orstandard . - adjective botany Of or relating to the
vexillum , orupper petal ofpapilionaceous flowers .
Etymologies
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Compare French vexillaire, Latin vexillarius a standard-bearer.
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