Definition of Gomphrena

1. Noun. Genus of tropical herbs or subshrubs having flowers in close heads; tropical America and Australia.


Definition of Gomphrena

1. Noun. Any plant of the genus ''Gomphrena'', the globe amaranths. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gomphrena

gomesi
gomesis
gomiliximab
gomitoli
gommelin
gomoku
gomokus
gompa
gompas
gomphiasis
gompholic joint
gomphoses
gomphosis
gomphothere
gomphotheres
gomphrena (current term)
gomphrenas
goms
gomuti
gomuti palm
gomutis
gomuto
gomutos
gon
gonad dose
gonad nucleus
gonadal

Literary usage of Gomphrena

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

1. The Flower Garden: Or, Breck's Book of Flowers; in which are Described All by Joseph Breck (1856)
"A pretty hardy annual, with blue, and a variety with white, flowers, in clusters or heads ; from June to August; two feet high. gomphrena. Globe Amaranth. ..."

2. Flora historica: or, The three seasons of the British parterre historically by Henry Phillips (1829)
"... until the time of removing them into the open garden. GLOBE AMARANTH. gomphrena Globosa. ff Natural Order same as the foregoing, but of the Class ..."

3. Flora Telluriana by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque (1836)
"The real gomphrena have only one capitate stigma says Smith; but the Genus appears to have been formed on the capitate flowers and mere habit! all those ..."

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