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Definition of Crescentia
1. Noun. A genus of tropical American trees of the family Bignoniaceae; has a short trunk and crooked limbs and drooping branches.
Generic synonyms: Asterid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Bignoniaceae, Family Bignoniaceae
Member holonyms: Calabash, Calabash Tree, Crescentia Cujete
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crescentia
Literary usage of Crescentia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Saintly Women by Agnes Baillie Cunninghame Dunbar (1904)
"On the site of an old church near Paris was a stone bearing this inscription, "Hie
requiescit Crescentia, sacrata Deo puella " (" Here lies Crescentia, ..."
2. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints by Alban Butler (1866)
"... and he is honoured on the 6th of August. See Colgan, ad 14 Jun. JUNE XV. SS.
VITUS OR GUY, Crescentia, ..."
3. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1854)
"De Candolle has enumerated (Prod. ix. 246. sq.) nine species of Crescentia (C.
Cujete, L., C. cuneifolia, Gard., C. acuminata, HBK, ..."
4. A Digest of the Law of Scotland: With Special Reference to the Office and by Hugh Barclay, Scotland (1855)
"62. See Act of Grace. GRAIN GROWING is the subject of theft; 1 Hume, 79.
Maliciously burning thereof is a capital crime ; Ibid. 125, 131. GRANA Crescentia— ..."
5. Spiritual Magazine (1870)
"In the greatest wonder Crescentia Wolf hastened to the stance at Mr. ... In short,
Crescentia Wolf was a trance medium of so pious, exalted, ..."
6. The Vegetable Materia Medica of Western India by William Dymock (1885)
"... in entire cells the crystals can be seen in situ. The bark is faintly bitter
and a little acrid ; it has no particular odour. Crescentia Cujete, Linn. ..."
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