Definition of Sansevierias

1. sansevieria [n] - See also: sansevieria

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sansevierias

sansa
sansar
sansars
sansas
sansculotte
sansculottes
sansculottic
sansculottish
sansculottism
sansculottisms
sansei
sanseis
sanserif
sanserifs
sansevieria
sansevierias (current term)
sansho
sanskara
sanskaras
sant
santabarbaraite
santaclaraite
santafeite
santal
santal oil
santalaceous
santalic
santalic acid
santalin
santalins

Literary usage of Sansevierias

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

1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"sansevierias are well adapted to house decoration, since they do not require much sunlight. A rather heavy soil suits them best. A. Lvs. flat or nearly so. ..."

2. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1902)
"sansevierias are easily propagated by division or they may be ... sansevierias are of easy culture and are well adapted to house decoration, since they do ..."

3. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"The sansevierias have thick rootstocks, bearing tufts or rosettes of rigid, sometimes stem-like leaves, from I to 4 feet long; and, in the species ..."

4. Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: A Popular Survey of Agricultural by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1907)
"... extending through the tissues of thick fleshy leaves or leaf stems of plants such as agaves, bananas, phormium, sansevierias and yuccas. ..."

5. Life-histories of African Game Animals by Theodore Roosevelt, Edmund Heller (1914)
"... they were found inhabiting dense, impenetrable thickets of thorny bushes made up of several species of acacias, aloes, euphorbias, and sansevierias. ..."

6. Travels in the Coastlands of British East Africa and the Islands of Zanzibar by William Walter Augustine Fitzgerald (1898)
"Ide and Christie, on this subject, that gentleman remarked that in these sansevierias, particularly the 6". longiflora, the Protectorate undoubtedly ..."

7. Notes on Agave and Furcraea in India (Dict. Ec. Pr., Vol.1, A.602-638; Vol.3 by J. R. Drummond, David Prain (1906)
"... April, to which nothing need be added here except that one or more sansevierias appear to have meantime come into commercial use in India. ..."

8. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"sansevierias are well adapted to house decoration, since they do not require much sunlight. A rather heavy soil suits them best. A. Lvs. flat or nearly so. ..."

9. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1902)
"sansevierias are easily propagated by division or they may be ... sansevierias are of easy culture and are well adapted to house decoration, since they do ..."

10. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"The sansevierias have thick rootstocks, bearing tufts or rosettes of rigid, sometimes stem-like leaves, from I to 4 feet long; and, in the species ..."

11. Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: A Popular Survey of Agricultural by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1907)
"... extending through the tissues of thick fleshy leaves or leaf stems of plants such as agaves, bananas, phormium, sansevierias and yuccas. ..."

12. Life-histories of African Game Animals by Theodore Roosevelt, Edmund Heller (1914)
"... they were found inhabiting dense, impenetrable thickets of thorny bushes made up of several species of acacias, aloes, euphorbias, and sansevierias. ..."

13. Travels in the Coastlands of British East Africa and the Islands of Zanzibar by William Walter Augustine Fitzgerald (1898)
"Ide and Christie, on this subject, that gentleman remarked that in these sansevierias, particularly the 6". longiflora, the Protectorate undoubtedly ..."

14. Notes on Agave and Furcraea in India (Dict. Ec. Pr., Vol.1, A.602-638; Vol.3 by J. R. Drummond, David Prain (1906)
"... April, to which nothing need be added here except that one or more sansevierias appear to have meantime come into commercial use in India. ..."

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