Definition of Tropaeolums

1. tropaeolum [n] - See also: tropaeolum

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tropaeolums

troopials
trooping
troopmate
troopmates
troops
troopship
troopships
troosers
troostite
troostites
trooz
trop
tropaean
tropaeola
tropaeolin
tropaeolums (current term)
tropaic acid
tropane
tropanes
troparia
troparion
tropate
trope
troped
tropeic acid
tropein
tropeine
tropeines
tropentane
tropeolin

Literary usage of Tropaeolums

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

1. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste by Luther Tucker (1858)
"The choice kind of tropaeolums are among the best plants for the purpose. To carry them over the entire surface, it is necessary to watch the young shoots ..."

2. The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and by C M Hovey (1862)
"There are the hardy annuals, which ought to be sown directly; sweet peas, mignonette, minor convolvulus, white alyssum, tropaeolums, asters, nemophila, ..."

3. Flowers and Their Friends by Margaret Warner Morley (1897)
"The tropaeolums we have in/L. our gardens are not the only ... there are, in fact, some forty different tropaeolums living in South America and Mexico, ..."

4. Seventy-five Popular Flowers, and how to Cultivate Them by Edward Sprague Rand (1870)
"The large-growing tropaeolums, or, as they are commonly called, nasturtiums ... As is the case with all the garden tropaeolums, the plants succeed best in a ..."

5. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1880)
"These birds have been seen to frequent flowers of pelargoniums, fuchsias, trumpet-creepers, phloxes, verbenas, catmint, milkweed, tropaeolums, honeysuckles, ..."

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