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Definition of Adenium
1. Noun. One species: succulent shrub or tree of tropical Africa and Arabia.
Generic synonyms: Dicot Genus, Magnoliopsid Genus
Group relationships: Apocynaceae, Dogbane Family, Family Apocynaceae
Member holonyms: Adenium Multiflorum, Adenium Obesum, Desert Rose, Impala Lily, Kudu Lily, Mock Azalia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Adenium
Literary usage of Adenium
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Unknown Horn of Africa: An Exploration from Berbera to the Leopard River by Frank Linsly James, James Godfrey Thrupp (1888)
"... of a plant affording an arrow-poison, which I identify with Adenium ...
and in the Adenium we have a second poisonous species used for the same purpose. ..."
2. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1861)
"... Adenium obesum, with its almost globular fleshy trunk, naked branchlets bearing
a tuft of leaves and an umbel of beautiful flowers ; Moringa ..."
3. Botanisches Zentralblatt: Referierendes Organ für das Gesamtgebiet der Botanik by Botanischer Verein in München, Deutsche Botanische Gesellschaft, Berlin (1908)
"L'absence d'aiguillons ne paraît pas aux auteurs un caractère suffisant pour
séparer les Adenium des Pachypodium : tandis que certains Adenium ont des ..."
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