cruciferous
Meaning of cruciferous
adjective
relating to or denoting plants of the cabbage family ( Cruciferae ).
mid 19th century: from modern Latin Cruciferae (plural), from Latin crux, cruc- ‘cross’ + -fer ‘bearing’ (because the flowers have four equal petals arranged crosswise), + -ous.
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Hyphenation of cruciferous
cru-cif-er-ous
- It consists of 4 syllables and 11 chars.
- cruciferous is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
Translation of cruciferous
Words that rhyme with cruciferous
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