Definition of Fabiana

1. Noun. Genus of South and Central American heathlike evergreen shrubs.

Exact synonyms: Genus Fabiana
Generic synonyms: Asterid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Family Solanaceae, Potato Family, Solanaceae
Member holonyms: Fabiana Imbricata, Pichi

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fabiana

F waves
F word
F words
Fab
Fab Four
Fab fragment
Fab piece
Fabaceae
Faber's anaemia
Faber's syndrome
Faberge
Faberge egg
Fabian
Fabian Society
Fabiana
Fabiana imbricata
Fabianism
Fabians
Fabius
Fabry's disease
Fabry disease
Fabs
Facebook
Facebooked
Facebooking
Facebooks
Fachtna Fáthach
Factors I XII
Faded Giant

Literary usage of Fabiana

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse by Edward Step (1897)
"Genus Fabiano, fabiana (named in honour of F. Fabiano, a Spanish botanist). ... fabiana is not exacting in regard to soil, providing it Cultivation. . is of ..."

2. Trees & Shrubs for English Gardens by Ernest Thomas Cook (1908)
"fabiana IMBRICATA.—Chili. A charming evergreen heath-like shrub, bearing a profusion of pure- white tubular flowers clustered thickly around every shoot. ..."

3. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1899)
"briefly summed up as follows : fabiana imbricata contains no alkaloid other than ... The leaves of fabiana imbricata contains much magnesium phosphate. ..."

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