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Definition of Crepis
1. Noun. Hawk's-beard; cosmopolitan in northern hemisphere.
Generic synonyms: Asterid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Aster Family, Asteraceae, Compositae, Family Asteraceae, Family Compositae
Member holonyms: Hawk's-beard, Hawk's-beards
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crepis
Literary usage of Crepis
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 (1856)
"Purple-eyed Crepis. — The Purple-eyed Crepis is an uncommonly hardy and beautiful
annual, of the easiest culture. Sown in masses, and the plants thinned out ..."
2. Handbook of the Flora of Philadelphia and Vicinity: Containing Data Relating by Ida Augusta Keller, Stewardson Brown (1905)
"Crepis L. HAWK'S-BEARD. Stem leaves narrow, revolute-margined, sessile. 1. C.
tectorum. ... Crepis TECTORUM LM p. 902. Fields and ballast. Summer. ..."
3. The Natural History of Pliny by Pliny, John Bostock, Henry Thomas Riley (1856)
"If " Crepis" is the correct reading, that plant has not been identified. 90 The
herbaceous kinds are no doubt those alluded to. 91 See B. xix. cc. ..."
4. The Flowering Plants of Tunbridge Wells & Neighbourhood by Richard Deakin (1871)
"Crepis virens. smooth, slightly contracted above; Pappus white, silky roughish.
... Dry pastures, meadows, roofs of cottages, &c., common. Crepis biennis. ..."
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