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Definition of Magnolia macrophylla
1. Noun. Large deciduous shrub or tree of southeastern United States having huge leaves in dense false whorls and large creamy flowers tinged purple toward the base.
Generic synonyms: Magnolia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Magnolia Macrophylla
Literary usage of Magnolia macrophylla
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 (1897)
"Magnolia macrophylla Michx. Great- leaved Magnolia. ... Magnolia macrophylla Michx.
Fl. Bor. Am. i: 327. 1803. A tree 20°-6o° high, the trunk 6'-20' in ..."
2. The Trees of America: Native and Foreign, Pictorially and Botanically by Daniel Jay Browne (1846)
"HE Magnolia macrophylla is the least multiplied of the American species, and is
rare- / ly met with in the forests. Its/, general appearance greatly ..."
3. The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and by C M Hovey (1842)
"Some account of the Magnolia, macrophylla, its discovery in a new locality,
together with a notice of the Nursery of JV. W. Hatch, Ficksburg, Miss. ..."
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