cichoraceous
English
Etymology
Cichoraceae + -ous
Adjective
cichoraceous (comparative more cichoraceous, superlative most cichoraceous)
- (botany) Belonging to, or resembling, a suborder of composite plants of which the chicory (Cichorium) is the type.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “cichoraceous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)