Definition of Kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate

1. Noun. Annual with broadly ovate leaves and slender drooping spikes of crimson flowers; southeastern Asia and Australia; naturalized in North America.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate

kishkas
kishke
kishkes
kisir
kismat
kismats
kismet
kismetic
kismets
kiss'd
kiss-and-tell
kiss-curl
kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate (current term)
kiss-off
kiss-offs
kiss-up
kiss-ups
kiss and make up
kiss and ride
kiss and tell
kiss arse
kiss chase
kiss curl
kiss goodbye
kiss me
kiss my arse

Literary usage of Kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate

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

1. Flower Gardening by Henry Sherman Adams (1913)
"... for example, in preference to welcome- home-husband-be-he-never-so-drunk and prince's feather (Polygonum orientale) to kiss-me-over-the- garden-gate. ..."

2. The Vascular Flora of Pennsylvania: Annotated Checklist and Atlas by Ann Fowler Rhoads, William M. Klein (1993)
"... L. kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate;Prince's-feather Herbaceous annual Cultivated and occasionally escaped to cultivated fields, roadsides and waste ground. ..."

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