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Meaning of "portulacaceous" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PORTULACACEOUS

portulacaceous  [ˌpɔːtjʊləˈkeɪʃəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PORTULACACEOUS

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

WHAT DOES PORTULACACEOUS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of portulacaceous in the English dictionary

The definition of portulacaceous in the dictionary is of, relating to, or belonging to the Portulacaceae, a cosmopolitan family of mainly fleshy-leaved flowering plants common in the US.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PORTULACACEOUS


agaricaceous
əˌɡærɪˈkeɪʃəs
bombacaceous
ˌbɒmbəˈkeɪʃəs
brassicaceous
ˌbræsɪˈkeɪʃəs
dicacious
dɪˈkeɪʃəs
efficacious
ˌɛfɪˈkeɪʃəs
ericaceous
ˌɛrɪˈkeɪʃəs
gracious
ˈɡreɪʃəs
inefficacious
ˌɪnɛfɪˈkeɪʃəs
juncaceous
dʒʌŋˈkeɪʃəs
micaceous
maɪˈkeɪʃəs
orobanchaceous
ˌɔːrəʊbæŋˈkeɪʃəs
perspicacious
ˌpɜːspɪˈkeɪʃəs
pervicacious
ˌpɜːvɪˈkeɪʃəs
procacious
prəˈkeɪʃəs
salicaceous
ˌsælɪˈkeɪʃəs
smilacaceous
ˌsmaɪləˈkeɪʃəs
spacious
ˈspeɪʃəs
styracaceous
ˌstaɪrəˈkeɪʃəs
tenacious
tɪˈneɪʃəs
urticaceous
ˌɜːtɪˈkeɪʃəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PORTULACACEOUS

portrayable
portrayal
portrayer
portreeve
portress
Portsmouth
Portugal
Portugal laurel
Portuguese
Portuguese East Africa
Portuguese Guinea
Portuguese Guinean
Portuguese India
Portuguese man-of-war
Portuguese Timor
Portuguese water dog
Portuguese West Africa
Portuguese-speaking
portulaca
porty

WORDS THAT END LIKE PORTULACACEOUS

arenaceous
argillaceous
carbonaceous
chartaceous
coriaceous
cretaceous
crustaceous
diatomaceous
farinaceous
gorgeous
herbaceous
liliaceous
olivaceous
predaceous
proteinaceous
sebaceous
siliceous
solanaceous
the Cretaceous
tuffaceous
violaceous

Synonyms and antonyms of portulacaceous in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «portulacaceous» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PORTULACACEOUS

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The translations of portulacaceous from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «portulacaceous» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

portulacaceous
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

portulacaceous
570 millions of speakers

English

portulacaceous
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

portulacaceous
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

portulacaceous
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

portulacaceous
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

portulacaceous
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

portulacaceous
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

portulacaceous
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Portulacaceous
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

portulacaceous
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

portulacaceous
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

portulacaceous
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Portulacaceous
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

portulacaceous
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

portulacaceous
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पोटॅलेकेसियस
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

portulacaceous
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

portulacaceous
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

portulacaceous
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

portulacaceous
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

portulacaceous
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

portulacaceous
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

portulacaceous
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

portulacaceous
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

portulacaceous
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of portulacaceous

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PORTULACACEOUS»

The term «portulacaceous» is normally little used and occupies the 143.505 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about portulacaceous

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PORTULACACEOUS»

Discover the use of portulacaceous in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to portulacaceous and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Molecular Phylogeny of the Portulacaceous Cohort
The central focus of this research is the use of chloroplast ndhF sequence data to produce a phylogeny of the Portulacaceae, including an evaluation of the relationships of this family to the Basellaceae, Cactaceae, and Didiereaceae.
Wendy Linn Applequist, 1999
2
THE RURAL CAROLINIAN
Tenacity of Life in Portulacaceous Plants. Specimens of Lewisia rediviva, a Portulacaceous plant, large-flowered and fleshy, growing in British Columbia, Oregon, and California, will grow, although they have been dried and in the herbarium ...
‎1872
3
Molecular Systematics and Plant Evolution
For example, in a 45-sequence alignment representing the portulacaceous alliance (Hershkovitz and Zimmer, 1997), the aligned length of ITS1 plus ITS2 ( excluding 5.88) was 556. Of these 556 aligned sites, 376 (68%) included an indel in at ...
Peter M. Hollingsworth, Richard M. Bateman, Richard J. Gornall, 1999
4
Boston Journal of Chemistry
Tenacity of Life in Portulacaceous Plants. — Specimens of Lewisia rediviva, a portulacaceous plant, large-flowered and fleshy, growing in British Columbia, Oregon, and California, will crow, although they have been dried and in the herbarium ...
‎1871
5
Cacti: Biology and Uses
(1997) concluded again that Pereskia (Cactaceae) belongs in the portulacaceous cohort. With internal transcribed spacer sequences of cpDNA, Hershkovitz and Zimmer (1997) obtained results that placed the primitive leaf- bearing cacti ...
Park S. Nobel, 2002
6
The American Journal of Science and Arts
... quasi-Portulaceous plants as Sttuvium, Tri- antkema, &c., the MollugineeB, and some genera which have of late • been referred rather to Phytolaccacea, the connecting links, indeed, of several Caryophyllineous and Portulacaceous groups.
‎1868
7
Reports of Explorations and Surveys to Ascertain the Most ...
1. Summit of Noble's Pass, Sierra Nevada; July 3. The specimens of this interesting Portulacaceous genus accord with those of Col. Fremont, who alone has gathered the plant hitherto; but being younger, the corollas are more conspicuous, ...
‎1855
8
American Journal of Science: The First Scientific Journal in ...
... the Mollugineas, and some genera which have of late been referred rather to Phytolaccacem, the connecting links, indeed, of several Caryophyllineous and Portulacaceous groups. The Umbelliferce, which were in a most unsatisfactory state ...
‎1868
9
Journal of Science, and Annals of Astronomy, Biology, ...
... tenacity of life amongst the higher plants, Lewisia redivia is mentioned, a Portulacaceous plant, large flowered and fleshy, growing in British Columbia, Oregon, and California. Specimens of this plant will grow, although they have been dried ...
‎1866
10
Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
A little Portulacaceous plant of the Rocky Mountains was several years ago inadvertently, not to say carelessly, referred by me to the wrong genus, namely, Talz'num pygmwum. This has since been more or less confused with a nearly related ...
‎1873

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Portulacaceous [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/portulacaceous>. Apr 2024 ».
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