Definition of Clintonia borealis

1. Noun. Common woodland herb of temperate North America having yellow nodding flowers and small round blue fruits.

Exact synonyms: Heal All, Yellow Clintonia
Group relationships: Genus Clintonia
Generic synonyms: Clinton's Lily, Clintonia

Lexicographical Neighbors of Clintonia Borealis

Cliftonia
Cliftonia monophylla
Climategate
Clinch River
Clinidae
Clinopodium
Clinopodium grandiflorum
Clinopodium vulgare
Clinoril
Clint
Clinton
Clinton's lily
Clinton administration
Clintonesque
Clintonia andrewsiana
Clintonia borealis (current term)
Clintonia uniflora
Clintonian
Clintonism
Clintonisms
Clintonista
Clintonistas
Clintonize
Clintonomics
Clio
Clios
Clipper chip
Clipper chips
Clitocybe
Clitocybe clavipes

Literary usage of Clintonia borealis

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)
"Six species, the following of eastern North America, 2 of western North America, 2 Asiatic. Type species : Clintonia borealis (Ait.) Raf. ..."

2. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1916)
"As regards distribution, Clintonia borealis is more northerly and much more widely distributed than C. umbellulata. It occurs 4 See GATES, R. RUGGLES, ..."

3. Familiar Flowers of Field and Garden by Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews (1895)
"Clintonia borealis. Clintonia borealis is a pretty little pale straw-yellow lily whose only fault, it seems to me, lies in its weak and uncertain coloring. ..."

4. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1913)
"Some species, as for example Phegopteris polypodioides, Arisaema triphyllum, Clintonia borealis and Coptis trifolia, are characteristic of low woods. ..."

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