Definition of Hardiest

1. Adjective. (superlative of hardy) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hardiest

1. hardy [adj] - See also: hardy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hardiest

hardhacks
hardhanded
hardhandedness
hardhat
hardhats
hardheaded
hardheadedly
hardheadedness
hardheads
hardhearted
hardheartedly
hardheartedness
hardier
hardies
hardiest (current term)
hardihead
hardihood
hardihoods
hardily
hardiment
hardiments
hardiness
hardinesses
hardish
hardiship
hardkill
hardline

Literary usage of Hardiest

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

1. Select extra-tropical plants readily eligible for industrial culture or by Ferdinand Jacob H. Mueller (1880)
"This tree exudes a kind of Olibanum resin and represents apparently one of the hardiest species of this and allied genera. Boswellia thurifera, Colebrooke. ..."

2. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"-This plant is the hardiest species, and will stand many degrees of frost. Hardy as far north as Washington. Var. mollis, Benth. ..."

3. "Liberty": The Image and Superscription on Every Coin Issued by the United by Julius Rubens Ames (1837)
"Yet he gets a high salary, for he makes the largest crop of any other man in the neighborhood, though none but the hardiest negroes can stand it under him. ..."

4. Italian Characters in the Epoch of Unification (1890)
"ammunition was gone, the fierce Sicilian sun was wearing out the hardiest. The commander of the first company, who had exposed himself all the day through ..."

5. The English Flower Garden and Home Grounds: Design and Arrangement Shown by by William Robinson (1901)
"By a selection of the hardiest of climbing Roses very beautiful pictures might be formed in our pleasure grounds and plantations, and we might often see as ..."

6. Elliott's Fruit Book; Or, The American Fruit-grower's Guide in Orchard and by Franklin Reuben Elliott (1854)
"In strong rich soils, throughout the entire Western States, it proves one of the hardiest, most productive, profitable, as well as best varieties known. ..."

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