a. Bot. [f. L. alsine chickweed (a. Gr. ἀλσίνη an unidentified plant) + -ACEOUS.] Allied to, or resembling the chickweed.
1835. Lindley, Introd. Bot., I. i. (ed. 2), 141. The alsinaceous [corolla] has short distant [claws].
1854. Hooker, Himalayan Jrnls., II. xxii. 137. The tufted alsinaceous one.
1879. Syd. Soc. Lex., Alsinaceous, Having a polypetalous corolla with intervals between the petals.
