Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of dwarf hardy herbs, used for borders, rockeries, and shady places, containing almost 80 species of ill-defined plants of the family Rubiaceæ, two of which, A. odorata, commonly called sweet woodruff, and A. hexaphylla are commonly cultivated in America.
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- noun woodruff
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And the little blue asperula – a novelty of last year, as the catalogues say – was pretty enough, in spite of dry weather, to have another chance.
Gardening by Myself 1872
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Wtj sexual harassment lawyers cycliophora for adventurousness, scour, and nonunionized asperula superhuman in deleterious astrocyte, moviegoer and eumeces.
Rational Review 2009
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In the north of the region, some of the best known plants yield products of commercial value, such as rubber (Hevea brasiliensis), mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla), balsam wood (Myroxylon balsamum), timber and essential oil (Amburana acreana), tagua nut (Phytelephas microcarpa), and strychnine (Strychnos asperula).
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