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Definition of Lupins
1. lupin [n] - See also: lupin
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lupins
Literary usage of Lupins
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Allen's Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Modes of by Alfred Henry Allen (1913)
"lupins. The greater part of the protein is a globulin, insoluble in water, ...
Osborne and Campbell have shown that yellow lupins contain two different ..."
2. The Rothamsted Memoirs on Agricultural Science by Rothamsted Experimental Station, Joseph Henry Gilbert, John Bennet Lawes (1899)
"The Experiments with lupins, in 1889. It has already been said that most of the
blue lupins failed ; but it was with the yellow lupins that the most ..."
3. Enquiry Into Plants and Minor Works on Odours and Weather Signs by Theophrastus (1916)
"The peculiarity again of lupins 8 is less surprising, namely that, if the seed
is dropped where the ground is thickly overgrown, it pushes 4 its root ..."
4. Return to Resistance: Breeding Crops to Reduce Pesticide Dependence by Raoul A. Robinson (1996)
"lupins Of special interest is the lupin breeding program of Wallace Cowling
working in Perth, ... Cowling deliberately set out to breed lupins (Lupinus ..."
5. The Chemistry of Common Life by James Finlay Weir Johnston, Arthur Herbert Church (1891)
"Composition of beans, peas, and lupins.—The sago-palm, and the seeds of the
araucaria.—The fruits of the banana, the date-palm, the fig-tree, ..."
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