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Definition of Caltha
1. Noun. A genus of Caltha.
Generic synonyms: Magnoliid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Buttercup Family, Crowfoot Family, Family Ranunculaceae, Ranunculaceae
Member holonyms: Caltha Palustris, Cowslip, Kingcup, Marsh Marigold, May Blob, Meadow Bright, Water Dragon
Definition of Caltha
1. a type of plant [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Caltha
Literary usage of Caltha
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Natural History of Pliny by Pliny, John Bostock, Henry Thomas Riley (1856)
"Next to it comes the caltha, the flowers of which are of similar colour and
size ;5 in the number of its petals, however, it surpasses the marine violet, ..."
2. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London by Linnean Society of London (1807)
"THE figure which accompanies this paper is of a new Caltha> •which I had some
time ago ... It differs from the Caltha palustris in having a creeping stalk, ..."
3. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Eberhard Goebel (1905)
"Caltha palustris. As an example I take Caltha palustris, of which Fig. 246 shows
in the figure to the left ... Caltha palustris. Young leaves dissected oat. ..."
4. A Botanical Materia Medica by Jonathan Stokes (1812)
"Caltha. Calyx none. Petals 5 to 7. Nectaria none. Capsules 4 to 17, ...
Caltha palustris. Leaves cordato-reniform. Stem erect. Obs. 81. In wet ground. ..."
5. Pittonia by Edward Lee Greene (1901)
"During almost thirty years I have been acquiring familiarity in field and herbarium
with the white-flowered Caltha species common in alpine or subalpine ..."
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