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Definition of Spurless
1. a. Having no spurs.
Definition of Spurless
1. Adjective. Without spurs. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Spurless
1. without spurs [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spurless
Literary usage of Spurless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Phytologist: A Popular Botanical Miscellany edited by George Luxford, Edward Newman (1842)
"spurless Variety of Dog Violet. We have lately received specimens of a form of
Viola canina, in which the flowers are said to be always destitute of a spur; ..."
2. A Systematic Arrangement of British Plants by William Withering, William Macgillivray (1837)
"Calyx spreading, embracing the base of the spurless nectary. ... Nectary without
a spur, nearly globular inflated spurless nectary. Petals converging. ..."
3. Hortus Woburnensis: A Descriptive Catalogue of Upwards of Six Thousand by James Forbes (1833)
"E.FI. spurless. ov.scal.lan.;s(mC-12in.high. 0. 7. Scotland . ... Lip spurless,
artic. with the colma. Poll, moist» 4, parallel. '.minium. ..."
4. Rhodora by New England Botanical Club (1899)
"PROVIDENCE, RI A spurless HALENIA FROM MAINE. ML FERNALD. DURING the past two
seasons, while collecting the spurred-gentian in various parts of Maine, ..."
5. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th Series by California academy of sciences (1897)
"ON spurless FORMS OF AQUILEGIA. Aquilegia differs from allied genera chiefly in
having five spurred petals and a column of staminodia surrounding the ..."
6. Luther Burbank: His Methods and Discoveries and Their Practical Application by Luther Burbank, John Whitson, Robert John, Henry Smith Williams, Luther Burbank Society (1915)
"Of course, when you deal with a spurless form, if the individuals that you use
are themselves hybrids of the first generation of ..."
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