Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of dicotyledonous plants of the family Nyctaginaceæ. See
Oxybaphus .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a small genus of chiefly American herbs.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun small genus of chiefly American herbs
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Examples
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We there found not only cactuses, tufts of cistus-leaved tribulus, and the beautiful purple euphorbia, * but also the avicennia, the allionia, the sesuvium, the thalinum, and most of the portulaceous plants which grow on the banks of the gulf of Cariaco.
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We there found not only cactuses, tufts of cistus-leaved tribulus, and the beautiful purple euphorbia, * (* Euphorbia tithymaloides.) but also the avicennia, the allionia, the sesuvium, the thalinum, and most of the portulaceous plants which grow on the banks of the gulf of Cariaco.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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