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Definition of Large-flowering magnolia
1. Noun. Evergreen tree of southern United States having large stiff glossy leaves and huge white sweet-smelling flowers.
Generic synonyms: Magnolia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Large-flowering Magnolia
Literary usage of Large-flowering magnolia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Black Sheep Chapel by Margaret Elsie Crowther Baillie-Saunders (1919)
"with blue plumbago, roses, and one large flowering magnolia, making the ugly
structure into a bower of blossoms, a floral carnival only possible (for the ..."
2. Descriptive Sketches: Illustrating Mr. William Simpson's Drawings of the by George Brackenbury, William Simpson (1855)
"... and contrast with the dark lustreless leaves of the laurel ; here is a
delicate-leaved acacia, there a large-flowering magnolia ; the lotus-tree, ..."
3. A Preliminary Report of the Geological and Agricultural Survey of Texas by Samuel Botsford Buckley (1866)
"... or Large 'flowering Magnolia. This fine evergreen tree is more easily.cultivated
than many suppose, and is easily grown from the seed. ..."
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