‖ scrophularia Bot.
(skrɒfjʊˈlɛərɪə)
Also 7–8 scrof-, 7 schroph-.
[mod.L. (sc. herba), f. med.L. scrophula scrofula: see -ary.]
A genus of monopetalous plants (the fig-worts), typical of the N.O. Scrophulariaceæ; a plant of this genus.
| [1527 Andrew Brunswyke's Distyll. Waters B iv, Scrofularia in latyn. The best parte & tyme of his dystyllacyon is the rote wasshed, and the leues stroped fro the stalkes and so togyder dystylled.] 1663 Boyle Usef. Exp. Nat. Philos. ii. v. viii. 192 Our Chymist told me he had made such Prima entia of Scrophularia. 1741 Compl. Fam.-Piece ii. iii. 385 You have besides the scarlet Lichnis,..Spanish Scrophularia [printed Scorphularia], Larkspur. |
Hence scrophulariˈaceous a., belonging to the N.O. Scrophulariaceæ; scrophuˈlariad, a plant of this order.
| 1846 Smart Suppl., Scrophulariaceous. 1866 Treas. Bot. 126/2 Bartsia, unpretending annuals, belonging to Scrophulariads. 1884 Athenæum 20 Sept. 375/2 The classification of the labiates, the scrophulariads, the Leguminosæ [etc.]. |