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adjective

Papilionaceous adj.

Resembling the butterfly.

(Bot.)

(a)

Having a winged corolla somewhat resembling a butterfly, as in the blossoms of the bean and pea.

(b)

Belonging to that suborder of leguminous plants (Papilionaceae) which includes the bean, pea, vetch, clover, and locust.

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Etymology of 'Papilionaceous'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Papilionaceous" Quotes from Famous Books

... 'Linnaea,' vii, p. 206,—Clitoria, Bonavia, 'Gard. Chron.,' 1868, p. 1013. In this latter communication, published as this sheet is passing through the press, the author gives an interesting account of the transitional stages between the ordinary papilionaceous condition and the regular form which is like that of a Rosaceous plant. The peloric form is stated to ...

— Vegetable Teratology - An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants • Maxwell T. Masters

... say on Papilionaceous flowers is very true; and I have no facts to show that varieties are crossed; but yet (and the same remark is applicable in a beautiful way to Fumaria and Dielytra, as I noticed many years ago), I must ...

— The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume II • Francis Darwin

... relieves its uniform everlasting verdure. There are patches, sometimes large areas, where it does not grow, and these are carpeted by small creeping herbs of a livelier green, and are gay in spring with flowers, chiefly of the composite and papilionaceous kinds; and verbenas, scarlet, purple, rose, and white. On moist or marshy grounds there are also several lilies, yellow, white, and red, two or three flags, and various other small flowers; but altogether the flora of the pampas is the poorest in species of any fertile district on the globe. ...

— The Naturalist in La Plata • W. H. Hudson