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Definition of Cranesbills
1. cranesbill [n] - See also: cranesbill
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cranesbills
Literary usage of Cranesbills
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Treasury of Botany: A Popular Dictionary of the Vegetable Kingdom; with by John Lindley (1866)
"The cranesbills, whose name is derived from the long central beak of the fruit,
... is distinguished from the cranesbills, by its irregular flowers, ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1896)
"... we hear of clove pinks, gillyflowers, white and red roses, the yellow and the
purple iris, Various lilies, cranesbills, poppies, the scabious, ..."
3. Proceedings by Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh (1883)
"Wild flowers in wondrous wealth on the low banks of the river— milk worts,
euphrasy, wild hyacinths, large purple cranesbills, ..."
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