a. Bot. [f. mod.L. Ternstrœmiāceæ (f. Ternstrœmia, a genus named after Ternström, a Swedish naturalist) + -OUS.] Belonging to the Ternstrœmiacæ, an order of tropical trees and shrubs, with showy white (sometimes pink or red) flowers, generally borne in racemes; it includes the tea-plant and the camellia, and many plants valued as flowering shrubs.
1885. H. O. Forbes, Nat. Wand. E. Archip., 400. Through dense forest, full of Ternstrœmiaceous trees.
