cruciferous

[ kroo-sif-er-uh s ]

/ kruˈsɪf ər əs /

bearing a cross.

Botany. belonging to the Cruciferae, the mustard family of plants.

Compare mustard family.

Origin of cruciferous

1650–60; < Late Latin crucifer crucifer; see -ous

Eight hundred fathoms broad at this point, the Niger flowed between banks richly grown with cruciferous plants and tamarind-trees.

Five Weeks in a Balloon |Jules Verne
The soil is clayey, and thinly bestrewed with alpine grass, intermingled with syngenesious and cruciferous plants.

Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests |J. J. von Tschudi
Anastatica, a genus of cruciferous plants, including the Rose of Jericho (A. hierochuntica).

The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 |Various
The Cruciferous plants form so natural an order, that when one of them has been described the others may be easily recognised.

Botany for Ladies |Jane Loudon

Woad is a cruciferous plant, Isatis tinctoria, used for dyeing.

The High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland |T. W. Rolleston

cruciferous

/ (kruːˈsɪfərəs) /

of, relating to, or belonging to the plant family Cruciferae See crucifer (def. 1)