Definition of Rhodora

1. a flowering shrub [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rhodora

rhodolites
rhodomontade
rhodomontades
rhodonite
rhodonites
rhodophane
rhodophylactic
rhodophylaxis
rhodophyte
rhodophytes
rhodopseudomonas
rhodopsin
rhodopsin kinase
rhodopsins
rhodoquinone oxidoreductase
rhodora (current term)
rhodoras
rhodospirillaceae
rhodospirillales
rhodospirillum
rhodospirillum rubrum
rhodostannite
rhodotorula
rhodous
rhodoxanthin
rhodplumsite
rhodplumsites
rhody

Literary usage of Rhodora

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

1. International Catalogue of Scientific Literature by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1908)
"rhodora, Boston, Mass, 6, 1904, (34-41). [6000 8000 gg]. 23525 Preliminary lists of New Lympus ... rhodora, The genus Arnica in Boston, Mass., 7, 1905, ..."

2. How to Know the Wild Flowers: A Guide to the Names, Haunts, and Habits of by Frances Theodora Parsons, Marion Satterlee (1900)
""In May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh rhodora in the ... rhodora! If the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and ..."

3. Studies in Reading by James William Searson, George Ellsworth Martin (1912)
"THE rhodora RALPH WALDO EMERSON THE rhodora belongs to a family of ... He was one of Nature's tenderest worshipers and when asked, "Whence is this rhodora ? ..."

4. American Poetry by Percy Holmes Boynton, George Wiley Sherburn, Howard Mumford Jones, Frank Martindale Webster (1918)
"THE rhodora: On being asked, Whence is the flower? In May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, nook, To please the desert and the sluggish I found the ..."

5. Junior High School Literature by William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck (1920)
"THE rhodora RALPH WALDO EMERSON In May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes ... rhodora! if the sages ask thee why 10 This charm is wasted on the earth and ..."

6. American Poetry by Percy Holmes Boynton, Howard Mumford Jones, George Wiley Sherburn, Frank Martindale Webster (1918)
"THE rhodora: On being asked. Whence is the flower? ... rhodora! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, 1° Tell them, dear, ..."

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