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Definition of Leontopodium
1. Noun. Edelweiss.
Generic synonyms: Asterid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Aster Family, Asteraceae, Compositae, Family Asteraceae, Family Compositae
Member holonyms: Edelweiss, Leontopodium Alpinum
Lexicographical Neighbors of Leontopodium
Literary usage of Leontopodium
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania by Royal Society of Tasmania (1882)
"Indeed I was then already considering whether it ought not to find its most
appropriate place in leontopodium, notwithstanding the generally solitary ..."
2. Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Or, Flower-garden Displayed: In which the Most by John Sims (1818)
"Sp. PI. p. 54. t. 86. Villars Delph 3. p. 191. ANTENNARIA leontopodium. ...
GNAPHALIUM leontopodium erectum. Barrel. Icon 127 viii 128. viii. ..."
3. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"Edelweiss—leontopodium alpinum (< V portion being the flat, star-like cluster of
woolly floral leaves surrounding the true Us., which are small, ..."
4. Plant Names, Scientific and Popular, Including in the Case of Each Plant the by Albert Brown Lyons (1900)
"(Kew), not Colm., G. leontopodium L., A. leontopodium Gaertn.). Alps to the
Himalayas. Lion's-foot, better known by its German name, Edelweiss. 1165. ..."
5. Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society by Wernerian Natural History Society, Edinburgh, Wernerian Natural History Society (Edinburgh, Scotland) (1826)
"Gnaphalium leontopodium, Lam. Encycl, 2. p. 751.—Scop. Cam. 2. p. 150.—Jacq. ...
Filago leontopodium, Pallas MSS. Hab. in Sibiria oriental!, ubi legit ann. ..."
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