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Definition of Sea lavender
1. Noun. Any of various plants of the genus Limonium of temperate salt marshes having spikes of white or mauve flowers.
Group relationships: Genus Limonium, Limonium
Generic synonyms: Subshrub, Suffrutex
Definition of Sea lavender
1. Noun. A plant in the genus Limonium ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Sea lavender
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Sea Lavender
Literary usage of Sea lavender
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gardeners Dictionary: Containing the Methods of Cultivating and ...by Philip Miller by Philip Miller (1754)
"LIMONIUM, Sea-lavender. The Characters are ; • It bath a ... Another large late -
flowering Sea-lavender of Narbonne. 3. LIMONIUM maritimum minus, ele<t ..."
2. Flora Domestica: Or, The Portable Flower-garden : with Directions for the by Elizabeth Kent (1825)
"THE Scolloped-leaved Sea-lavender has a yellow flower with a handsome blue calyx,
handsomer than the flower itself. It retains its beauty when dry, ..."
3. How to Know the Wild Flowers: A Guide to the Names, Haunts, and Habits of by Frances Theodora Parsons, Marion Satterlee (1900)
"In August many of the salt marshes are blue with the tiny flowers of the sea
lavender. The spray-like appearance of the little plant would seem to account ..."
4. The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women (1914)
"T/ie fourth story in this series will appear in the next number, SEA-LAVENDER.
О SPINES of grey sea-lavender along the barren beaches, I seek you through ..."
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