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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