Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of polypetalous plants belonging to the natural order Portulaceæ, the purslane family, distinguished by having from 5 to 8 sepals and from 8 to 10 petals.
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- noun Any
plant of thegenus Lewisia.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun genus of western North American low-growing herbs having linear woolly leaves and large pink flowers
Etymologies
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From the genus name.
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Examples
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D'Arcy & Everest GPE7 plans to bring a new orange-yellow lewisia, 'Little Mango', the third of a series created in Germany by Georg Uebelhart, of Jelitto Perennial Seeds, who tells me: "These have proved to be super garden plants and do not suffer from rust or basal rosette rot as other lewisias, especially L. cotyledon, do."
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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