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Definition of Broomrapes
1. broomrape [n] - See also: broomrape
Lexicographical Neighbors of Broomrapes
Literary usage of Broomrapes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Diseases of Cultivated Plants and Trees by George Massee (1915)
"The broomrapes (Orobanche) are our most pronounced parasites, and, having no
trace of chlorophyll, depend entirely on the host-plant for food from the ..."
2. Diseases of Cultivated Plants and Trees by George Massee (1913)
"... we have but few of the higher plants that affect a parasitic habit, and some
amongst these do very little injury to cultivated plants. The broomrapes ..."
3. American Druggist (1889)
"Where it is a question of parasites, such as the broomrapes, it is necessary at
the same time to take up the host plant, the point of adhesion of the roots ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... (broomrapes) possess erect, simple or little- branched stems bearing numerous
scale-like leaves, and are variously coloured, but destitute of ..."
5. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1874)
"... was supposed to be a flowering plant, allied to the broomrapes, but that idea
is now abandoned. Another plant which the German botanist Corda designated ..."
6. Class-book of Botany: Being Outlines of the Structure, Physiology, and by Alphonso Wood (1873)
"... broomrapes. Herbs fleshy, leafless, growing parasitically upon the roots of
other plants. Calyx i to 5-toothed, inferior, persistent. ..."
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