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boraginaceous

boraginaceous adjective: of, relating to, or resembling the Boraginaceae, a plant family which includes the borage, heliotrope, beggar's lice, and many other pestiferous plants.

Adjective

boraginaceous (comparative more boraginaceous, superlative most boraginaceous)

  1. Of, relating to, or resembling the Boraginaceae, a plant family which includes the borage, heliotrope, beggar's lice, and many other pestiferous plants.

Forms of boraginaceous

comparativemore boraginaceous
superlativemost boraginaceous

Origin of boraginaceous

Boraginaceae + -ous

Questions about boraginaceous

What does boraginaceous mean?
Boraginaceous means of, relating to, or resembling the Boraginaceae, a plant family which includes the borage, heliotrope, beggar's lice, and many other pestiferous plants.
What part of speech is boraginaceous?
Boraginaceous is an adjective.

Words near boraginaceous in the dictionary

  1. Boraga
  2. borage
  3. borages
  4. boragewort
  5. borageworts
  6. boraginaceous
  7. boragineous
  8. Borah
  9. Borah Creek
  10. Borah Peak
  11. Borahs

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