Definition of Houstonias

1. houstonia [n] - See also: houstonia

Lexicographical Neighbors of Houstonias

housie
housier
housiest
housing
housing commissioner
housing development
housing estate
housing estates
housing for the elderly
housing industry
housing project
housing start
housings
housling
houstonia
houstonias (current term)
hout
houted
houting
houtings
houtou
houtous
houts
houttuynia
houttuynias
houve
hove
hovea
hoved
hovel

Literary usage of Houstonias

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

1. Through the Year with Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau, Herbert Wendell Gleason (1917)
"houstonias. How affecting that, annually at this season, as surely as the sun takes a higher course in the heavens, this pure and simple little flower peeps ..."

2. White Mountain Trails: Tales of the Trails to the Summit of Mount Washington by Winthrop Packard (1912)
"The meadow violets smile bravely blue from shy nooks, and the snow that lingered so long on the slopes is born again in the gentler white of houstonias ..."

3. The Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Nathaniel Hawthorne, George Parsons Lathrop, Julian Hawthorne (1896)
"The children found houstonias more than a week ago. There have been easterly wind, ... houstonias are abundant, blue-whitening some of the pastures. ..."

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