adjective

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Having the form of a butterfly.

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Having a corolla showing bilateral symmetry with prominent wing-like petals, as found in the Faboidea (Papilionoidea).

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Of or pertaining to the Fabaceae family of plants.

Examples of papilionaceous in a Sentence

Such are Papilionaceous flowers, Violaceae, many Labiatae, Scrophulariaceae and others.

In the low brushwood scattered over portions of the dreary plains of the Kandahar table-lands, we find leguminous thorny plants of the papilionaceous sub-order, such as camel-thorn (Hedysarum Alhagi), Astragalus in several varieties, spiny rest-harrow (Ononis spinosa), the fibrous roots of which often serve as a tooth-brush; plants of the sub-order Mimosae, as the sensitive mimosa; a plant of the rue family, called by the natives lipdtd; the common wormwood; also certain orchids, and several species of Salsola.

When the different members of each whorl are like in size and shape, the flower is said to be regular; while differences in the size and shape of the parts of a whorl make the flower irregular, as in the papilionaceous flower, represented in fig.

In some cases, as in papilionaceous flowers, the stamens cohere, having been originally separate, but in most cases each bundle is produced by the branching of a single stamen.

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