balsamináceo, a.
(From [Impatiens] Balsamina, name of a species of plants).
1. adj. Bot. It is said the herbaceous flowering plants, dicotyledons, usually fleshy stems, leaves without stipules, once glands in the petioles, zygomorphic flowers with often colored calyces who have one of its sepals with spur, fruit in the form of fleshy capsule; e.g., the Peru balsamina. U t. c. s. f.
2. f. pl. Bot. These plant family.
ORTOGR. ESCR. with may. initial.
