Definition of Lunaria

1. Noun. Small genus of European herbs: honesty.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Lunaria

Lule Sami
Luleå
Lulli
Lully
Lulogooli
Luluabourg
Lulworth skipper
Lulworth skippers
Lumasaaba
Lumpenus
Lumpenus lumpretaeformis
Lumumbist
Lumumbists
Luna
Luna-Ishak stain
Lunaria
Lunaria annua
Lunarian
Lunarians
Lund
Lunda
Lunda cirrhata
Lunfardo
Lungwa
Lunt
Lunyo virus
Luo
Luo orutu
Luoravetlan
Luorawetlan

Literary usage of Lunaria

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

1. Ferns: British and Exotic by Edward Joseph Lowe (1864)
"... lunaria, is a native of Great ... Sprengel enumerates— B. lunaria, Swartz, Europe. — australe, Brown, New Holland. ..."

2. The Flower Garden: Or, Breck's Book of Flowers ; in which are Described All by Joseph Breck (1859)
"lunaria biennis. — Honesty is an old-fashioned plant, flowering the second year from ... lunaria is from luna, the moon, in allusion to the broad, round, ..."

3. Flora Domestica, Or, The Portable Flower-garden: With Directions for the by Elizabeth Kent, Leigh Hunt (1831)
"Italian, lunaria.—German and Dutch, a variety of names, most of which have ... THE Italian name lunaria, and the English name Moon- wort, were given to this ..."

4. Modern Russian Poetry by Babette Deutsch (1921)
"SONNET XV (From the Sonnet-cycle "lunaria") Pure pearl of silence brooding on the sky, Presider o'er conception, lamp of dreams, Altar of nightly spells, ..."

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