Definition of Dracunculus vulgaris

1. Noun. European arum resembling the cuckoopint.

Exact synonyms: Dragon Arum, Green Dragon
Generic synonyms: Aroid, Arum
Group relationships: Dracunculus, Genus Dracunculus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dracunculus Vulgaris

Drabkin's reagent
Dracaena draco
Dracaenaceae
Dracenaceae
Draco
Dracocephalum
Dracocephalum parviflorum
Draconist
Draconists
Dracula
Dracunculidae
Dracunculus lova
Dracunculus medinensis
Dracunculus oculi
Dracunculus persarum
Dracunculus vulgaris (current term)
Dragendorff's test
Dragendorff reagent
Drager respirometer
Dragon
Dragon Li
Dragunov
Draize test
Draize tests
Drake
Drake equation
Drama
Drambuie
Drangiana
Draper's law

Literary usage of Dracunculus vulgaris

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun (1902)
"... and in the sheathing-bracts of Dracunculus vulgaris which grows in Italy scarcely anything but carrion-beetles of the genera Dermestes and ..."

2. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign (1863)
"... as far as they belong to the period terminating with 1763, must be mentioned that Dracunculus vulgaris was formerly called Serpentaria, An- guina, ..."

3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1907)
"1904) gives lists of visitors of Dracunculus vulgaris. Nicotra (Bull. Soc. Bot. Ital. 1906:128-131) discusses the floral ecology of Urginea, ..."

4. C.E. Hobbs' Botanical Hand-book: Of Common Local, English, Botanical and by Charles E. Hobbs (1876)
"... Dracunculus vulgaris, Drimys aromatica,* " Chiliensis, " Granatensis, Bulbous Dolichos, Cats' elaw, Purple hyacinth bean, ..."

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