Definition of Hottonia

1. Noun. Aquatic herbs.

Exact synonyms: Genus Hottonia
Generic synonyms: Dicot Genus, Magnoliopsid Genus
Group relationships: Family Primulaceae, Primrose Family, Primulaceae
Member holonyms: Feather-foil, Featherfoil

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hottonia

Hotmailer
Hotot
Hottentot
Hottentot's bread
Hottentot's bread vine
Hottentot's fig
Hottentot bread
Hottentot bread vine
Hottentot fig
Hottentot tea
Hottentot teal
Hottentot teals
Hottentotism
Hottentotisms
Hottentots
Hottonia (current term)
Hottonia inflata
Hottonia palustris
Houchen
Houdini
Houdinied
Houdiniesque
Houdinis
Houghton
Hound of the Baskervilles
Hounsfield number
Hounsfield unit
Housatonic
Housatonic River
House

Literary usage of Hottonia

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

1. Handbook of Hardy Herbaceous and Alpine Flowers by William Sutherland (1871)
"Hottonia.—So far as is at present known, this pretty and interesting genus of aquatic plants comprises only two species— the one a native of North America, ..."

2. Gray's Botanical Text-book by Asa Gray (1885)
"The maximum temperature at which assimilation can occur in Anacharis * is between 45° and 50° C.; in Hottonia,5 just below 56° C. The optimum* temperature ..."

3. Physiological Botany by George Lincoln ( Goodale (1890)
"The maximum temperature at which assimilation can occur in Anacharis * is between 45° and 50° C.; in Hottonia,3 just below 56° C. The optimum* temperature ..."

4. English Botany; Or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with Their Essential by James Edward Smith, James Sowerby (1807)
"Capsule with 1 cell. SPEC. CHAR. Stalk bearing many flowers in whorls. SYN. Hottonia palustris. Linn. Sp. PI . 208. Huds. GEN/CHAR. Corolla salver-shaped. ..."

5. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1898)
"With Hottonia the few experiments we made were more satisfactory. Aug. 1. Old Tap-water. still 23 pc oxygen stirred 22 „ Aug. 2. ..."

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