oleraceous

English

Etymology

From Latin oleraceus, from olus, oleris (“garden or pot herbs, vegetables”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əʊləˈɹeɪʃəs/

Adjective

oleraceous (not comparable)

1. Relating to potherbs.
   • c. 1683, Thomas Browne, Certain Miscellany Tracts:

     grow unto a ligneous substance, and from an herby and oleraceous vegetable, to become a kind of tree

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “oleraceous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)