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Definition of Ipomoea quamoclit
1. Noun. Tropical American annual climber having red (sometimes white) flowers and finely dissected leaves; naturalized in United States and elsewhere.
Generic synonyms: Morning Glory
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ipomoea Quamoclit
Literary usage of Ipomoea quamoclit
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, Addison Brown (1898)
"(Fig.2943.) Q. vulgaris Choisy in DC. Prodr. 9: 336. 1845. Ipomoea quamoclit L.
Sp. PI. 159. 1753. Annual, glabrous; stem slender, twining to a height of ..."
2. The Vascular Flora of Pennsylvania: Annotated Checklist and Atlas by Ann Fowler Rhoads, William M. Klein (1993)
"Ipomoea quamoclit L. Cypress-vine Herbaceous annual vine Gardens, streets and
waste ground. Quamoclit quamoclit (L.) Britt. P; Quamoclit vulgaris Choisy GB ..."
3. The Vegetable Materia Medica of Western India by William Dymock (1885)
"Value, Rs. 5 per maund of 37£ Ibs. Ipomoea quamoclit, Linn., Rheede Hort. Mai.
xi., t. 60; Pot. Mag., t. 244. Vernacular. ..."
4. Transactions of the Annual Meetings of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science, Kansas Academy of Science Meeting (1899)
"Ipomoea quamoclit, cypress-vine; close about noon. Ipomoea coccinea, scarlet
cypress vine; close about noon, except in cloudy weather. ..."