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Definition of Clethra
1. Noun. Type and sole genus of the Clethraceae; deciduous shrubs or small trees: white alder, summer-sweet.
Generic synonyms: Dicot Genus, Magnoliopsid Genus
Group relationships: Clethraceae, Family Clethraceae, White-alder Family
Definition of Clethra
1. Noun. Any of the genus ''Clethra'' of flowering shrubs or small trees bearing flowers in clusters. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clethra
Literary usage of Clethra
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Year Among the Trees: Or, The Woods and By-ways of New England by Wilson Flagg (1881)
"THE Clethra. AFTER the flowers of the azalea have faded, we are attracted in like
situations by a similar fragrance from the Clethra, or Spiked Alder, ..."
2. The Flower Garden, Or, Breck's Book of Flowers: In which are Described All by Joseph Breck (1858)
"Clethra. This genus is composed mostly of American plants, and succeeds ...
Alder-leaved Clethra, — A shrub, from two to eight feet high, showing a long ..."
3. Rhodora by New England Botanical Club (1907)
"... Fletcher is quite right and that in fact the station was Westford and not
Westfield as quoted through some oversight.—ED. A PINK-PETALED FORM OF Clethra ..."
4. Ornamental Shrubs of the United States (hardy, Cultivated) by Austin Craig Apgar (1910)
"The best and most hardy species, 3 to 10 feet high, SWEET Clethra or SWEET ...
The next in hardiness is found wild from Virginia south, SOUTHERN Clethra or ..."
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