Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A gardener’ name for certain flowers in which the corolla appears to be double.
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In the case of simultaneous development we meet with a repetition of whorls, as in what are termed hose-in-hose flowers (flores duplicati, triplicati, &c.), and also with cases of peloria.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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And I wondered if the nightingale would find out the hose-in-hose, when
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My only fear now was that Bessy's aunt might ask after the hose-in-hose.
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And next day he went to the place to look, and there were the hose-in-hose.
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And then I saw that I was right, and that the flowers in his button-hole were hose-in-hose.
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And now there are hose-in-hose, and they are not at all common.
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I put my little trowel, and a bottle of water, and the six hose-in-hose into a basket, and was glad to get off quietly and alone to plant them.
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He suddenly spoke, with smiles – I know where we'll find hose-in-hose!
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At this point the Weeding Woman became short of breath, and I managed to protest against taking so many plants of the hose-in-hose.
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Supposing we find hose-in-hose, and supposing we find green cowslips, and supposing we find curled cowslips or galligaskins, and supposing –
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