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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A large genus of cruciferous plants, chiefly herbs, of the tribe Lepidineæ, distinguished by the dehiscent pod, which is almost always two-seeded, and by the white flowers.
  • noun In zoology, a genus of thysanurous insects. Also written Lepidion.

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  • noun cosmopolitan genus of annual and biennial and perennial herbs: cress

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  • In the little thicket of the Pejual, near the purple-flowered befaria, grows a heath-leaved hedyotis, eight feet high; the caparosa, * which is a large arborescent hypericum; a lepidium, which appears identical with that of Virginia; and lastly, lycopodiaceous plants and mosses, which cover the rocks and roots of the trees.

    Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

  • Two new species of lycopodium, the thyoides, and the aristatum, are seen lower down, near the Puerto de la Silla.); a lepidium, which appears identical with that of Virginia; and lastly, lycopodiaceous plants and mosses, which cover the rocks and roots of the trees.

    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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