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- proper noun a genus of Old World (mainly African) perennial herbs; sometimes placed in family
Asphodelaceae .
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- noun genus of Old World (mainly African) perennial herbs; sometimes placed in family Asphodelaceae
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Examples
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St. Bruno (Anthericum liliastrum), a plant worthy of giving its name to a valley of which it is a characteristic feature.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 561, October 2, 1886 Various
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For _ST BERNARD'S_ and _ST BRUNO'S LILIES, see_ "Anthericum."
Gardening for the Million Alfred Pink
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_Anthericum_ (_A. variegatum_) -- The foliage is shaped like a broad blade of grass and very prettily bordered with white.
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All this while, meantime, I have a suspicion that my pet Savoy Lily is not, in existing classification, an Anthericum, nor a Hemerocallis, but a
Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859
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Botanists are divided in their opinions respecting the genus of this plant; LINNÆUS considers it as an _Anthericum_, HALLER and MILLER make it an _Hemerocallis_.
Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859
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Plants, (a most useful book, as far as any book in the present state of the science _can_ be useful,) and find, under the head of Anthericum, the Savoy
Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859
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You may be farther embarrassed by finding that the Anthericum of Savoy is only described as growing in Switzerland.
Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859
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Sky cloudy; wind north-east; thermometer 80 degrees at 2 o'clock; the sunshine plant (Mimosa terminalis) was frequent on the black soil; a Swainsonia; an Anthericum, with allium leaf and fine large yellow blossoms; and another species with small blossoms, (Stypandra).
Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 Ludwig Leichhardt 1830
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Acacia with glaucous bipinnate leaves; a white Scaevola, Anthericum, and
Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 Ludwig Leichhardt 1830
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Lachlan at this place the Anthericum bulbosum occurred in abundance, and the cattle seemed to eat it with avidity.
Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 Thomas Mitchell 1823
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