a. and sb. [f. as prec. + -AL.]

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  A.  adj.

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  1.  Related to or resembling the genus Ficus.

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1884.  in Syd. Soc. Lex.

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  2.  Pertaining to, or of the nature of, the Natural Order Ficoideæ or Mesembriaceæ. Ficoidal alliance, a name given by Lindley to a group containing the Mesembriaceæ and three other orders.

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1846.  Lindley, The Vegetable Kingdom, 523. The Ficoidal Alliance. Ibid., 525. Ficoidal Exogens.

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  B.  sb. A plant belonging to the Ficoidal Alliance.

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1846.  Lindley, The Vegetable Kingdom, 525. They are to Ficoidals what Purslanes or Cloveworts are to Silenals, the princes of their race.

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