English Explanatory Dictionary

sterculiaceous

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Of or relating to the family Sterculiaceae (a former name for Malvaceae) of polypetalous exogenous plants, mostly tropical, including the cocoa plant.

Word forms

sterculiaceous

Etymology

From translingual Sterculia + -aceous, the typical genus, from Latin Sterculius (“the deity that presided over manuring”), from stercus (“dung”). So called because one of the original species has a foetid smell.

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