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Definition of Skimmia
1. an Asiatic shrub [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Skimmia
Literary usage of Skimmia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse by Edward Step (1896)
"... five-lobed calyx, and four or five oblong petals. Fruit, egg-shaped or globular
drupes. The species are natives of Japan, China, and Himalaya. skimmia ..."
2. Himalayan Journals, Or, Notes of a Naturalist in Bengal, the Sikkim and by Joseph Dalton Hooker (1854)
"... —skimmia—Yew—Rose— Aconite—Bikh poison—English genera of plants—Ascent of
tropical orders —Comparison with south temperate zone—Heavy rain—Temperature, ..."
3. A Journey to the Tea Countries of China: Including Sung-Lo and the Bohea by Robert Fortune (1852)
"... Canton — Value there — Introduction to Europe—Size in England—Azalea gardens—
skimmia ... skimmia ..."
4. Paxton's Flower Garden by John Lindley, Joseph Paxton, Thomas Baines (1884)
"These statements we can quite confirm ; for, although both have sweet-scented
leaves, yet Limonia Laureola is by no means so sweet as skimmia ..."
5. Paxton's Flower Garden by John Lindley, Sir Joseph Paxton (1853)
"In this respect then, the two plants are alike, and the supposed difference, of
albumen in Limonia Laureola, and none in skimmia ..."
6. A General System of Botany Descriptive and Analytical: In Two Parts by Emmanuel Le Maout, Joseph Decaisne, Joseph Dalton Hooker (1876)
"... or connate at the base, or throughout into a several-celled ovary ; ovules 2
in each cell, superimposed or collateral, very rarely solitary (skimmia), ..."
7. Ornamental Shrubs of the United States (hardy, Cultivated) by Austin Craig Apgar (1910)
"... (usually of 4 petals) and small red berries with 2 to 4 seeds lasting over
the winter. The leaves / //t • J ' Fio. 61.—Hop Tree. Fio. 62.—Japan skimmia. ..."
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