- Valerianaceous
- Valerianaceous Va*le`ri*an*a"ceous, a. (Bot.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, plants of a natural order ({Valerianacc[ae]}) of which the valerian is the type. The order includes also the corn salads and the oriental spikenard. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.