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Definition of Cleome pinnata
1. Noun. Perennial of southwestern United States having leathery blue-green pinnatifid leaves and thick plumelike spikes of yellow flowers; sometimes placed in genus Cleome.
Exact synonyms: Desert Plume, Prince's-plume, Stanleya Pinnata
Group relationships: Genus Stanleya, Stanleya
Generic synonyms: Subshrub, Suffrutex
Group relationships: Genus Stanleya, Stanleya
Generic synonyms: Subshrub, Suffrutex
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cleome Pinnata
Literary usage of Cleome pinnata
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Manual of Botany for North America: Containing Generic and Specific by Amos Eaton (1836)
"... remotely toothed: racemes terminal, many-flowered: peduncles long. Mr.
Nuttall thinks the Cleome pinnata of Plu and this plant are trie same. ..."
2. Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles: dans lequel on traite méthodiquement by Frédéric Cuvier (1826)
"Le genre fait sous ce nom par M. Rafinesque, est le cleome pinnata de M, Pursh,
dont M. Nut- tal a fait son genre ..."
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