Definition of Tolmiea

1. Noun. One species: pickaback plant.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Tolmiea

Tolai
Tolais
Toldt
Toldt's fascia
Toldt's membrane
Tolectin
Toledo
Tolinase
Tolkien
Tolkienesque
Tolkienian
Tolkienite
Tolkienites
Toll House cookie
Tollywood
Tolmiea
Tolmiea menziesii
Tolomako
Tolosa
Tolosa-Hunt syndrome
Tolstoy
Tolstoyan
Toltec
Toltecs
Tolu balsam
Toluca
Tolyatti
Tolypeutes
Tolypeutes tricinctus

Literary usage of Tolmiea

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

1. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"A single species, with the foliage and habit of Boykinia or some Saxifrages, the calyx of Tellima, petals rather of tolmiea, and perhaps the early dehiscent ..."

2. A Biographical Index of British and Irish Botanists by James Britten, George Simonds Boulger (1893)
"Canadian Geol. Survey. Contrib. to ' Fl. Boreali-Americana.' Comp. Bot. Mag. ii. 159 ; Amer. Journ. Sci. cxxxiii. 244. tolmiea Hook. ..."

3. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1911)
"807). Seed plants. — In the seed plants natural leaf reproduction is a rare phenomenon. In tolmiea and in Cardamine pratensis new plants ..."

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