Definition of Mikania

1. Noun. Large genus of evergreen lianas of tropical America.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Mikania

Midwesterners
Mien
Mies Van Der Rohe
Miescher
Miescher's elastoma
Miescher's granuloma
Miescher's tubes
Mig
Miggies
Miggy
Mighty Mouse
Miguel
Miguel Jose Serra
Miguel de Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Mikania
Mikania scandens
Mikayla
Mike
Mike's Mess
Mike Tyson
Mikey
Mikhail
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin
Mikhail Bakunin
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Mikhail Glinka
Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Ilarionovich Kutuzov
Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

Literary usage of Mikania

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

1. A Sketch of the Botany of South-Carolina and Georgia by Stephen Elliott (1824)
"Grows in the western districts of Georgia; very common in the prairie* of the Alabama. Flowers September—October.* mikania. Willd. Receptaculum dum. ..."

2. Summarized Proceedings ... and a Directory of Members (1892)
"mikania scandens develops a great number of these roots. A few appear upon the plant during its growth in summer, but the greatest development of the ..."

3. The Characteristics of the New Remedies by Edwin Moses Hale, F. S. Whitman (1873)
"(mikania Guaco.) ANALOGUES:—Arsenicum (?), Baptisia (?), Mercurius (? ... is the mikania Guaco.] [Dr. Elb, of Dresden, has made a proving of the ..."

4. Companion to the Botanical Magazine: Being a Journal, Containing Such by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1836)
"Its nearest natural affinity appears to be with mikania sessilifolia, ... There are only four florets in the capitulum, as in mikania, but the involucre and ..."

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