Lexicographical Neighbors of Flammule
Literary usage of Flammule
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Religion and Ethics by Shailer Mathews, Gerald Birney Smith (1921)
"(4) A flame, vapor, smoke, or the like, as in representations of a nimbus or
flammule. (5) Bird and other winged symbols, typifying the volatile powers of ..."
2. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, Charles Robert Cross, John Trowbridge, Samuel Kneeland, George Bliss (1850)
"He finds that the so-called fame-bud, a globular blue flammule, is first produced
at the summit of the wick; this is the result of the combustion of ..."
3. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood, John Christopher Atkinson (1872)
"The name of flam- mula is given to a ranunculus with spear or sword-shaped leaves.
Fr. flammule, spear-wort, or spear crowfoot.—Cot. ..."
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