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Cruciferous vs Crucigerous - What's the difference?

cruciferous | crucigerous |

As adjectives the difference between cruciferous and crucigerous

is that cruciferous is (botany) of, or relating to the crucifer plants or products from these plants; of the family cruciferae, the cabbage family, including cabbage and mustard while crucigerous is bearing a cross; marked with the figure of a cross.

cruciferous

English

Adjective

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  • (botany) Of, or relating to the crucifer plants or products from these plants; of the family Cruciferae, the cabbage family, including cabbage and mustard.
  • Bearing a cross.

    • Related terms

    * crucifer * Cruciferae

    crucigerous

    English

    Adjective

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  • Bearing a cross; marked with the figure of a cross.
  • * 1658 , Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus :
    • But not to look so high as Heaven or the single Quincunx of the Hyades upon the head of Taurus, the Triangle, and remarkable Crusero about the foot of the Centaur; observable rudiments there are hereof in subterraneous concretions, and bodies in the Earth; in the Gypsum or Talcum Rhomboides, in the Favaginites or honey-comb-stone, in the Asteria and Astroites, and in the crucigerous stone of S.Iago of Gallicia.