Definition of Colutea

1. Noun. Small genus of Eurasian shrubs with yellow flowers and bladdery pods.

Exact synonyms: Genus Colutea
Generic synonyms: Rosid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Papilionoideae, Subfamily Papilionoideae
Member holonyms: Bladder Senna, Colutea Arborescens

Lexicographical Neighbors of Colutea

Columba livia
Columba palumbus
Columbia
Columbia-Wenatchi
Columbia Mental Maturity Scale
Columbia River
Columbia University
Columbia tiger lily
Columbian
Columbians
Columbidae
Columbiformes
Columbus
Columbus Day
Columbusing
Colutea (current term)
Colutea arborescens
Colymbiformes
Com.
Coma Berenices
Comanche
Comanchero
Comancheros
Comanches
Comandra
Comandra pallida
Comatula
Comatulas
Comatulidae
Combiase

Literary usage of Colutea

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

1. The Flower Garden, Or, Breck's Book of Flowers: In which are Described All by Joseph Breck (1858)
"Colutea. Bladder Senna. Colutea, an ancient name of a bush with sweet-scented flowers. The genus includes a number of species of shrubs, with yellow or ..."

2. Maryland Geological Survey by Maryland Geological Survey (1916)
"It resembles more or less some of the various leaves which have been identified as Colutea ... 99, pl. xxvii, figs. 7-11; pl. xliii, figs. 7, 8. Colutea ..."

3. Reports Dealing with the Systematic Geology and Paleontology of Maryland by Maryland Geological Survey (1916)
"US Geol. Survey, vol. xvii, p. 148, pl. xlii, figs. 8, 9. Colutea ... Torrey Bot. Club, vol. xxi, p. 56, pl. clxxiv, fig. 2. Colutea ..."

4. The Gardeners Dictionary: Containing the Methods of Cultivating and ...by Philip Miller by Philip Miller (1754)
"Ind. Silver jointed-pod- ded Colutea of Ceylon. 6. CORONILLA minima. ... Jointed-podded Colutea, with thick Pods and Seeds. ..."

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