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Definition of Moneyworts
1. moneywort [n] - See also: moneywort
Lexicographical Neighbors of Moneyworts
Literary usage of Moneyworts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Flower Garden and Home Grounds: Design and Arrangement Shown by by William Robinson (1907)
"... the rosy and some of the Indian Primroses make beautiful edgings. Dwarf Harebells,
and some of the silvery or striped Grasses and moneyworts ..."
2. Proserpina: Studies of Wayside Flowers, While the Air was Yet Pure Among the by John Ruskin (1882)
"... the three divisions Digitalis, Linaria, Euphrasia, and probably separate the
moneyworts as links with Veronica, and Rhinanthus as links with Lathraea. ..."
3. The Norfolk Broads by William Alfred Dutt (1906)
"... adders' tongues sending up their slender spikes, thistles nodding their purple
heads, and moneyworts creeping amid the grasses and sedges. ..."
4. A Prairie Idyl, and Other Poems by Amanda Theodocia Jones (1882)
"Out-floating sleaves and spinnings light— Sheer webs, diaphanous laces; Doad gold
of moneyworts outflung In royal largess, vetches rare, Blue-flags with ..."
5. The Home Garden by Ella Rodman Church (1881)
"I would have the creepers there, too, such as vinca, moneyworts, partridge-berry,
ground-pine, and all hardy trailers, native or foreign, ..."
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