rutaceous

English

Etymology

From Latin rutaceus, from ruta (“rue”). See rue (“the plant”).

Adjective

rutaceous (not comparable)

(botany) Of or relating to plants of the family Rutaceae, of which the rue is the type, and which includes also the orange, lemon, dittany, and buchu.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “rutaceous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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