Lexicographical Neighbors of Costuses
Literary usage of Costuses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During by Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland, Thomasina Ross (1852)
"The cannas, the heliconias with fine purple flowers, the costuses, and other
plants of the amomum family, here attain eight or ten feet in height, ..."
2. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During by Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland, Thomasina Ross (1872)
"The cannas, the heliconias with fine purple flowers, the costuses, and other
plants of the amomum family, here attain eight or ten feet in height, ..."
3. Waste Products and Undeveloped Substances: Or, Hints for Enterprise in by Peter Lund Simmonds (1862)
"... for instance, and costuses, of which plants there are no end throughout the
eastern districts. In Herring's work on Paper and paper machinery there is a ..."
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