Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of leguminous plants of the United States, sometimes known as false indigo or lead-plant.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A genus of leguminous shrubs, having long clusters of purple flowers; false or bastard indigo.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any plant of the genus Amorpha having odd-pinnate leaves and purplish spicate flowers
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Examples
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Amorpha was in bloom everywhere on the sun-washed hillsides, purple clusters bursting against soil almost black … and now there were roses!
The Chisholms Evan Hunter 1976
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Amorpha was in bloom everywhere on the sun-washed hillsides, purple clusters bursting against soil almost black … and now there were roses!
The Chisholms Evan Hunter 1976
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Amorpha was in bloom everywhere on the sun-washed hillsides, purple clusters bursting against soil almost black … and now there were roses!
The Chisholms Evan Hunter 1976
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Amorpha canescens, Tephrosia Virginiana, Lithospermum canescens; _ between which the immigrated Mullein _ (Verbuscum thapsus) _ may be found.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator Various
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It also occurs in the bracts of _Corydalis solida_, _Amorpha fruticosa_, _Ajuga reptans_, _Parthenium inodorum_, _Centaurea Jacea_, in the involucral bracts of the dandelion, the daisy, and many other composites.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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Moquin relates a case of the kind in the haricot bean, in which the carina was entirely absent, and another in the pea, where both carina and alæ were missing, thus reducing the flower to the condition that is normal in _Amorpha_ and _Afzelia_.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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Schlechtendal [17] notices something of the same kind in the leaf of _Amorpha fruticosa_; Treviranus [18] in that of _Aristolochia
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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Amorpha canescens (_lead plant_) continued the characteristic plant of the country, and a narrow-leaved _lathyrus_ occurred during the morning, in beautiful patches.
The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources Brevet Col. J.C. Fremont 1851
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_Amorpha_, with the same _psoralea_, and a dwarf species of _lupinus_, are the characteristic plants.
The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources Brevet Col. J.C. Fremont 1851
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Page 394 coursing through the green plains, and dark promontories, or obtuse projections of the side-long acclivities, alternately advancing or receding on the verge of the illumined native fields, to the utmost extent of sight; the summits of the acclivities afford, besides the forest trees already recited, Halesia, Ptelea, Circis, Cornus Florida and Amorpha.
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