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Definition of Lithospermum
1. Noun. Annual or perennial herbaceous or shrubby plants; cosmopolitan except Australia.
Generic synonyms: Plant Genus
Group relationships: Borage Family, Boraginaceae, Family Boraginaceae
Member holonyms: Gromwell, Lithospermum Officinale, Lithospermum Caroliniense, Puccoon, Hoary Puccoon, Indian Paint, Lithospermum Canescens
Definition of Lithospermum
1. Noun. (botany) Any plant of the genus ''Lithospermum''. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lithospermum
Literary usage of Lithospermum
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1832)
"... of them have disappeared in August and September, when the young of some
species are not yet fledged. Analysis of the Stony Pericarp of the lithospermum ..."
2. The British Flora Medica: A History of the Medicinal Plants of Great Britain by Benjamin Herbert Barton, Thomas Castle (1877)
"By other authors it has been recommended as antispasmodic and emmenagogue. LXXXIX.
lithospermum OFFICINALE, L. GROMWELL. Nat. ..."
3. Our Country Home: How We Transformed a Wisconsin Woodland by Frances Kinsley Hutchinson (1908)
"The showy orchid in great clumps soon follows her taller sister, and a week later
the brilliant yellow lithospermum hirtum appears on THE SPIKED LOOSESTRIFE ..."
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