EXACUM Definition & Meaning

exacum

/ ˈɛ��ə��ə�� /

noun

any plant of the annual or perennial tropical genus Exacum; some are grown as greenhouse biennials for their bluish-purple platter-shaped flowers: family Gentianaceae

Discover More

�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of exacum¹

Latin, a name for centaury, from ex out + agere to drive

Discover More

Example Sentences

Examples have not been reviewed.

In Exacum and in Saintpaulia the flowers are dimorphic in this sense: the style projects to either the right or the left side of the corolla, from which it follows that a right-handed flower would fertilise a left-handed one, and vice versa.

From

Browse