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Definition of Amsinckia
1. Noun. Rough annual herbs of Europe and the Americas: fiddlenecks.
Generic synonyms: Plant Genus
Group relationships: Borage Family, Boraginaceae, Family Boraginaceae
Member holonyms: Amsinckia Intermedia, Common Amsinckia, Amsinckia Grandiflora, Large-flowered Fiddleneck
Definition of Amsinckia
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Amsinckia
Literary usage of Amsinckia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"amsinckia Lehm. Del. Sem. Hort. Hamb. 7. 1831. ... amsinckia intermédia F.
& M., an erect Californian species, with orange-yellow flowers and linear leaves, ..."
2. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th Series by California academy of sciences (1897)
"This appears similar to the common coast amsinckia which has been called A. ...
the following copy of which I am indebted to the Gray Herbarium: "amsinckia ..."
3. California Plants in Their Homes: A Botanical Reader for Children by Alice Merritt Davidson (1898)
"There are supposed to be several species of amsinckia in Southern California,
but the one so common as a roadside weed is A. ..."
4. Rhodora by New England Botanical Club (1901)
"EDWARD B. CHAMBERLAIN. [The sign + indicates that an herbarium specimen has been
seen ; the sign — that a printed record has been found.] amsinckia ..."
5. A Manual of Weeds: With Descriptions of All the Most Pernicious and by Ada Eljiva Georgia (1914)
"Yellow Burweed (amsinckia intermedia). X \- Other English names: Yellow Tarweed,
Fireweed, Yellow Forget-me-not. Seed-time: June to August. ..."
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