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Definition of Lungworts
1. lungwort [n] - See also: lungwort
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lungworts
Literary usage of Lungworts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Minnesota Plant Life by Conway MacMillan (1899)
"The lungworts are also called bluebells, but they are not to be confused with
the Canterbury-bells, which belong to quite a different family. ..."
2. Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener and Country Gentlemen (1875)
"OUR BORDER FLOWERS—lungworts. AT least two of this family of early-spring ...
Among flowers so welcomed are lungworts. They are a тегу accommodating family ..."
3. Reports of the Survey (1899)
"The lungworts are also called bluebells, but they are not to be confused with
the Canterbury-bells, which belong to quite a different family. ..."
4. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1885)
"Nor did the dense and universal coating of moss, filmy ferns, and lungworts,
afford any but the most treacherous foot-hold and hand-hold. ..."
5. The Life of the Bee by Maurice Maeterlinck (1901)
"... laying again in the very first days of February, and the workers have flocked
to the willows and nut-trees, gorse and violets, anemones and lungworts. ..."
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