Definitions for cruciferous

cruciferous cru·cif·er·ous

Spelling: [kroo-sif-er-uh s]
IPA: /kruˈsɪf ər əs/

Cruciferous is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 22 points.

You can make 396 anagrams from letters in cruciferous (ccefiorrsuu).

Definitions for cruciferous

adjective

  1. bearing a cross.
  2. Botany. belonging to the Cruciferae, the mustard family of plants.

Origin of cruciferous

1650-60; Late Latin crucifer crucifer; see -ous

Examples for cruciferous

The cruciferous plants form so natural an order, that when one of them has been described the others may be easily recognised.

Woad is a cruciferous plant, Isatis tinctoria, used for dyeing.

Belongs to the cruciferous family, and—Hang the cruciferous family!

Scur′viness, state of being scurvy: meanness; Scur′vy-grass, a genus of cruciferous plants, efficacious in curing scurvy.

The only novelty was Bardana in flower, and it proves to be a cruciferous plant of large size.

It occurs in cruciferous plants, as wallflower, cabbage and cress.

The caterpillar feeds on Sisymbrium, Arabis, Cardamine, and other cruciferous plants.

Eight hundred fathoms broad at this point, the Niger flowed between banks richly grown with cruciferous plants and tamarind-trees.

Anastatica, a genus of cruciferous plants, including the Rose of Jericho (A. hierochuntica).

The soil is clayey, and thinly bestrewed with alpine grass, intermingled with syngenesious and cruciferous plants.

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