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Definition of Ephedras
1. ephedra [n] - See also: ephedra
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ephedras
Literary usage of Ephedras
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Principles of Botany by Joseph Young Bergen, Bradley Moore Davis (1906)
"Of the smaller groups the cycads are mostly tropical, the ephedras are chiefly
... Like the horsetails and club mosses, the ephedras have for the most part ..."
2. Principles of Botany by Joseph Young Bergen, Bradley Moore Davis (1906)
"Of the smaller groups the cycads are mostly tropical, the ephedras are chiefly
... Like the horsetails and club mosses, the ephedras have for the most part ..."
3. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1895)
"... ephedras and other desert forms, while the alkaline and saline clay soils are
dotted here and there with ..."
4. Diversions of a Naturalist by Edwin Ray Lankester (1915)
"... strange African plant and the little European ephedras, resembling the plants
called horse-tails; fourth, the order of the Gingko trees of Japan ..."
5. Nature and Science on the Pacific Coast: A Guide-book for Scientific by Pacific Coast Committee (1915)
"... ephedras, and, along the river, Baccharis glutinosus, indicate a desert flora
essentially like that of the lowlands many miles to the west, ..."
6. The Treasury of Botany: A Popular Dictionary of the Vegetable Kingdom; with by John Lindley (1866)
"The branches and flowers of some of the ephedras have been used to stop bleedings
and.discharges. [JH В.] E PH ÉMÉ RI NE. (Fr.) Tradescantia. ..."
7. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: Historical and Descriptive by William Jackson Bean, William Turner Thiselton-Dyer (1908)
"At the opening to this walk is a collection of those curious allies of the
conifers, the ephedras. Beyond, each side of the grass walk is planted with ..."
8. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London by Linnean Society of London (1791)
"C. polygonoides. Linn. Spec. 748. Polygonoides orientale ephedras facie. T'ourn.
Cor. 47, //. ii. p. 356, /. 356. Habitat in Armenia. Tournefort. *? ..."
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