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Meaning of "nymphaeaceous" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD NYMPHAEACEOUS

From New Latin, from Latin nymphaea water lily, ultimately from Greek numphaios sacred to nymphs.
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PRONUNCIATION OF NYMPHAEACEOUS

nymphaeaceous  [ˌnɪmfɪˈeɪʃəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF NYMPHAEACEOUS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Nymphaeaceous is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES NYMPHAEACEOUS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of nymphaeaceous in the English dictionary

The definition of nymphaeaceous in the dictionary is of, relating to, or belonging to the Nymphaeaceae, a family of plants, including the water lilies, that grow in water or marshes and have typically floating leaves and showy flowers.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH NYMPHAEACEOUS


alliaceous
ˌælɪˈeɪʃəs
anacardiaceous
ˌænəˌkɑːdɪˈeɪʃəs
aquifoliaceous
ˌækwɪˌfəʊlɪˈeɪʃəs
bignoniaceous
bɪɡˌnəʊnɪˈeɪʃəs
bromeliaceous
brəʊˌmiːlɪˈeɪʃəs
caesalpiniaceous
ˌsɛzælˌpɪnɪˈeɪʃəs
caprifoliaceous
ˌkæprɪˌfəʊlɪˈeɪʃəs
coriaceous
ˌkɔːrɪˈeɪʃəs
foliaceous
ˌfəʊlɪˈeɪʃəs
geraniaceous
dʒɪˌreɪnɪˈeɪʃəs
liliaceous
ˌlɪlɪˈeɪʃəs
loganiaceous
ləʊˌɡeɪnɪˈeɪʃəs
magnoliaceous
mæɡˌnəʊlɪˈeɪʃəs
ostreaceous
ˌɒstrɪˈeɪʃəs
paleaceous
ˌpeɪlɪˈeɪʃəs
polemoniaceous
ˌpɒlɪˌməʊnɪˈeɪʃəs
scrophulariaceous
ˌskrɒfjʊˌlɛərɪˈeɪʃəs
sterculiaceous
stɜːˌkjuːlɪˈeɪʃəs
subcoriaceous
ˌsʌbkɔːrɪˈeɪʃəs
tiliaceous
ˌtɪlɪˈeɪʃəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE NYMPHAEACEOUS

nymph
nympha
nymphae
nymphaea
nymphaeum
nymphal
nymphalid
nymphean
nymphet
nymphetic
nymphic
nymphical
nymphish
nymphlike
nymphly
nympho
nympholepsies
nympholepsy
nympholept
nympholeptic

WORDS THAT END LIKE NYMPHAEACEOUS

arenaceous
argillaceous
carbonaceous
chartaceous
cretaceous
crustaceous
curvaceous
diatomaceous
ericaceous
farinaceous
gorgeous
herbaceous
micaceous
olivaceous
predaceous
proteinaceous
sebaceous
siliceous
the Cretaceous
tuffaceous
violaceous

Synonyms and antonyms of nymphaeaceous in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «nymphaeaceous» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF NYMPHAEACEOUS

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Translator English - Bengali

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Translator English - French

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Translator English - Malay

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Translator English - German

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Translator English - Japanese

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Translator English - Korean

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Nymphaeaceous
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nymphaeaceous
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Translator English - Tamil

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Translator English - Marathi

अनैमिफोशियल
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

nymphaeaceous
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

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Translator English - Polish

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Translator English - Ukrainian

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Translator English - Romanian

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Translator English - Greek

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Translator English - Afrikaans

nymphaeaceous
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Translator English - Swedish

nymphaeaceous
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

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5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of nymphaeaceous

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «NYMPHAEACEOUS»

The term «nymphaeaceous» is normally little used and occupies the 143.228 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «NYMPHAEACEOUS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about nymphaeaceous

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NYMPHAEACEOUS»

Discover the use of nymphaeaceous in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to nymphaeaceous and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Rural Cyclopedia, Or A General Dictionary of ...
The one plant or group was papilionaceous, and appears to have belonged to the melilot genus ; and the other was nymphaeaceous, and appears to have belonged to the water-lily genus. Yet the two groups are claimed by no fewer than ...
John Marius Wilson, 1851
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American journal of botany
-Nymphaeaceous vegetative remains from the Princeton chert. One small permineralized axis, 1.5 nm in diam, has been recovered from the Princeton chert locality (Middle Eocene, Allenby Formation) , British Columbia. The axis shows ...
‎1988
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Acta Universitatis Carolinae: Biologica
Acta Universitatis Carolinae Biologica 36 (1992): 227-232 Taxonomy of nymphaeaceous plants: a reconsideration JINDftlCH CHRTEK Department of Botany, National Museum, CS-252 43 Pruhonice u Prahy ZDEfiKA SLAVfKOVA Botanical ...
‎1992
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ECIFUAS-4: Fourth European Conference on Internal Friction ...
292 ERWIN, DIANE M.*, RUTH A. STOCKEY, AND SERGIO CEVALIOS-FERRIZ. Department of Botany, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2E9 . -Nymphaeaceous vegetative remains from the Princeton chert. One small pe ...
G. Fantozzi, A. Vincent, France. Ministère de l'industrie et de la recherche, 1983
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Transactions of the Linnean Society
Notice of Victoria regia, a new Nymphaeaceous plant, discovered by Mr. R. H. Schomburgk in British Guiana. London, 1837, foL 2147. Lightfoot (J.) Flora Scotica, 2nd edition, 2 vols. London, 1789, 8vo. 2148. Linnaei (C.) Philosophia Botanica.
‎1841
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Annals of Natural History, Or, Magazine of Zoology, Botany, ...
Since the above extracts were penned for publication, much valuable information has been given at the late meeting of the British Association at Liverpool respecting the splendid Nymphaeaceous plant discovered by Dr. Schomburgh in the ...
‎1838
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Transactions
The epicotyledonary central cylinder is originally pithless, as in the other nymphaeaceous species already described, but rapidly expands and almost immediately breaks up into an extremely complex system of anastomosing bundles, so that ...
Canadian Institute (1849-1914), 1899
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Annals of Botany
9 is drawn a specimen bearing axillary buds ; and in the same specimen may be seen the persistent root-caps of Nymphaeaceous roots 3. The abundant formation of roots, and the occasional protrusion of buds, may perhaps be associated ...
Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour, Roland Thaxter, Vernon Herbert Blackman, 1891
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The waterlilies: taxonomy and bibliography
They establish the existence of distinctly Nymphaeaceous types as early as the lower cretaceous. Indeed, at that time the three tribes Nelumboneae, Cabombeae, and Nymphaeinae were already well marked. Saporta ( 1 894 b) records ...
Henry Shoemaker Conard, 1905
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Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society ...
... organised, that it is ready to perform all the functions, of growth the instant that germinatio% is excited, and thus that necessity for a separate magazine of food, which is so great with the feeble Nymphaeaceous embryo, does not here exist.
Bombay Geographical Society, 1857

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