Lexicographical Neighbors of Nyssas
Literary usage of Nyssas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1901)
"nyssas are trees or shrubs with petiolate, usually entire Ivs. and small Hs.
borne in short racemes or dense 1504. ..."
2. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1891)
"The nyssas of the eastern Himalayas and the Malay islands are fairly well paralleled
by those of our Atlantic Slates. This has been taken to represent ..."
3. Atlantic Journal and Friend of Knowledge by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque (1833)
"... from 9 Many swamps are peculiar and wooded, covered by Cupressus thyoides and
disticha, Magnolias, nyssas <^c. called cedar or cypress swamps &c. ..."
4. Summarized Proceedings ... and a Directory of Members by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1891)
"The nyssas of the eastern Himalayas and the Malay Islands are fairly well paralleled
by those of our Atlantic States. This has been taken to represent ..."
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