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Vexillum   Listen
noun
Vexillum  n.  (pl. vexilla)  
1.
(Rom. Antiq.)
(a)
A flag or standard.
(b)
A company of troops serving under one standard.
2.
(Eccl.)
(a)
A banner.
(b)
The sign of the cross.
3.
(Bot.) The upper petal of a papilionaceous flower; the standard.
4.
(Zool.) The rhachis and web of a feather taken together; the vane.





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... Bauhinia, a tree about twenty feet high, with spreading branches covered with axillary fascicles of red flowers, long broad flat legumes, pinnate leaves, leaflets oval, about one inch long; an Erythrina, with fine racemes of orange-coloured flowers, with long narrow keel, and broad vexillum, leaves palmate, and three to five lunate leaflets, long, round, painted legumes, red seeds; also a rose-coloured Brachychiton, with rather small flowers, a deciduous tree of stunted habit, about twenty feet high. We also passed narrow belts of low sandy loam, covered ...
— Voyage Of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Vol. 2 (of 2) • John MacGillivray


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