Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of pyralid moths of the family Botidæ, or type of a family Scopariidæ, having porrect fasciculate palpi and short antennæ.
- noun A genus of gamopetalous plants, of the order Scrophularineæ, tribe Digitaleæ, and subtribe Sibthorpieæ. (Linnæus, 1753.)
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Examples
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In the damp hollows and interdunal valleys (Monte Negro) tree heather Erica scoparia and heath E. ciliaris grow, succeeding cork oak Quercus suber and strawberry trees Arbutus unedo.
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Various salt-tolerant plants have been used for leaf protein production including Kochia scoparia, Salsola kali, Beta maritima, Salicornia spp.,
Chapter 7 1990
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Moquin remarks having seen this enlargement in the pistils of _Suæda fruticosa_ and _Kochia scoparia_.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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This remarkable variety of = K. scoparia = is a miniature annual shrub, which is also known as Summer Cypress, or Belvidere.
The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition Sutton and Sons
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It consists in planting vineyards upon the dunes, and protecting them by hedges of broom, Erica scoparia, so disposed as to form rectangles about thirty feet by forty.
Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 05 (historical) 1874
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The flowers round about, especially those of the yellow broom (Genista scoparia), which in May deck the pebbly borders of the mountain streams with gold, supply her with sugary liquid and pollen.
The Mason-Bees Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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The botanical name of this plant is Eremophila scoparia.
Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, Ernest Giles 1866
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Cipura martinicensis, Panicum mieranthum, Parthenium hysterophorus, Vernonia odoratissima, (Pevetera, with flowers having a delicious odour of heliotropium), Tagetes caracasana, T. scoparia of
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Surrey and Hants (the same species as those of Scotland), larger and richer southern heaths cover the grey sands; and notably the delicate upright spires of the bruyere, or Erica scoparia, which grows full six feet high, and furnishes from its roots those 'bruyere' pipes, which British shopkeepers have rechristened 'briar-roots.'
Prose Idylls, New and Old Charles Kingsley 1847
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It consists in planting vineyards upon the dunes, and protecting them by hedges of broom, Erica scoparia, so disposed as to form rectangles about thirty feet by forty.
The Earth as Modified by Human Action George P. Marsh 1841
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