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Definition of Helxine
1. Noun. One species; a dwarf creeping mat-forming evergreen herb.
Generic synonyms: Dicot Genus, Magnoliopsid Genus
Group relationships: Family Urticaceae, Nettle Family, Urticaceae
Member holonyms: Baby Tears, Baby's Tears, Helxine Soleirolia, Soleirolia Soleirolii
Lexicographical Neighbors of Helxine
Literary usage of Helxine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Natural History of Pliny by Pliny, John Bostock, Henry Thomas Riley (1856)
"Some, again, such as the er}'nge,™* are prickly at the head only ; and some
blossom in the summer, the tetralix and the helxine, for instance. ..."
2. A Botanical Materia Medica by Jonathan Stokes (1812)
"193. Rait tyn. 158. Dod. 102, repr. in Ger. by Johns. 331, helxine sive ...
Lob.obs. 131, cop. in P. vulgaris. Park, theatr. 437, repr. m helxine. ..."
3. The English Rock-garden by Reginald John Farrer (1919)
"helxine Soleirolii exists for other purposes than that of breaking jaws.
The race-name is drawn from ei'Xio-ow, " I cling and twine," which has also given ..."
4. Scientific Papers of Asa Gray by Asa Gray (1889)
"... (helxine being Polygonum convolvulus), the stem winds around the support
passing from right to left of the observer confronting the coil; ..."
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