oleraceous
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin oleraceus, from olus, oleris (“garden or pot herbs, vegetables”).
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editoleraceous (not comparable)
- (archaic) Relating to potherbs.
- c. 1683, Thomas Browne, Certain Miscellany Tracts:
- grow unto a ligneous substance, and from an herby and oleraceous vegetable, to become a kind of tree
References
edit- “oleraceous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.