oleraceous en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /əʊləˈɹeɪʃəs/
Etymology
From Latin oleraceus, from olus, oleris (“garden or pot herbs, vegetables”).
Meanings
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(archaic, not-comparable) Relating to potherbs.
grow unto a ligneous substance, and from an herby and oleraceous vegetable, to become a kind of tree
c. 1683 (date written), Thomas Brown [i.e., Thomas Browne], “(please specify the page)”, in [Thomas Tenison], editor, Certain Miscellany Tracts, London: […] Charles Mearn, […], published 1683, →OCLC: