Definition of Lambertia

1. Noun. Small genus of Australian shrubs.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Lambertia

Lamarckists
Lamaze
Lamaze method
Lamaze method of childbirth
Lamb
Lamb of God
Lamb shift
Lamb shifts
Lambaréné
Lambert
Lambert's law
Lambert's syndrome
Lambert-Eaton syndrome
Lambert pine
Lambert pines
Lambertia (current term)
Lambertia formosa
Lambian
Lambis
Lambl's excrescences
Lamblia intestinalis
Lambo
Lamborghini
Lamborghinis
Lambos
Lambrinudi
Lambrinudi operation
Lambrusco
Lambruscos
Lambya

Literary usage of Lambertia

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

1. The London Journal of Botany by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1843)
"One of them, belonging to the genus Lambertia, grows thirty feet high, with a trunk three feet in diameter. Judging from some imperfect flowers which still ..."

2. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1900)
"The group Lambertia, reckoned by Tryon and Fischer a sub genus of ... As the Lambertia had already been used in zoology when Sou verb! wrote (by ..."

3. Systematic Anatomy of the Dicotyledons: A Handbook for Laboratories of Pure by Hans Solereder (1908)
"In the species of Banksia and Dryandra (according to Mohl) and Lambertia (according to Engler ') the pairs of guard- cells have the same structure as that ..."

4. Icones Plantarum: Or Figures, with Brief Descriptive Characters and Remarks ...by William Jackson Hooker by William Jackson Hooker (1843)
"Lambertia ILICIFOLIA. Hook. ... vol. of the "London Journal of Botany," where it is said : " This proves to be a new and very distinct species of Lambertia, ..."

5. A Contribution to the Flora of Australia by William Woolls (1867)
"(1) Grevillea, (2) Hakea, (3) Lambertia, (4) Xylo- melum, (5) Telopea, (6) Lomatia, ... Lambertia. The species near Sydney and Parramatta is L.formosa. ..."

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