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Definition of Camelina sativa

1. Noun. Annual European false flax having small white flowers; cultivated since Neolithic times as a source of fiber and for its oil-rich seeds; widely naturalized in North America.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Camelina Sativa

Literary usage of Camelina sativa

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

1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"Cotyledons incumbent. [Greek, low flax.] A genus of about 5 species, natives of Europe and eastern Asia. Type species: Camelina sativa (L.) ..."

2. "Union of the Siberian Creamery and Other Co-operative Associations" and the by Alexander Logofet (1919)
"telting foot wear and pressing oil of hemp seed, linseed and garden cress seed (Camelina sativa). Domestic Industries. Tanning, oil pressing, preparation of ..."

3. Rhodora by New England Botanical Club (1904)
"The first year I found growing among the oats, sparingly, Camelina sativa, Crantz. besides a number of other more common weeds of grain fields, ..."

4. Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and by Francis Peyre Porcher (1869)
"We have examined some of the oil obtained from the seed of the Camelina sativa, and which has been recently sent to several medical men by Mr. Taylor, ..."

5. The London Journal of Arts, Sciences, and Manufactures, and Repertory of by William Newton (1847)
"It was a communication by Mr. Taylor, on a new oil plant called the Camelina Sativa, or " Gold of Pleasure," and its importance to agriculturists and ..."

6. Proceedings of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester (1869)
"Camelina sativa has been very rarely met with in this neighbourhood. It is often imported with flax seed and has no claims to be considered even naturalised ..."

7. The Horticultural review and botanical magazine (1851)
"Camelina sativa, A NEW OIL PLANT. THIS is a carious plant, usually enumerated among our indigenous plants, though as it does not long propagate itself with ..."

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