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Definition of Nicotiana alata
1. Noun. South American ornamental perennial having nocturnally fragrant greenish-white flowers.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nicotiana Alata
Literary usage of Nicotiana alata
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1917)
"They should not be confused. The Nicotiana self-fertility is completely dominant
over self-sterility. Either of the self-sterile species Nicotiana alata or ..."
2. Our Garden Flowers: A Popular Study of Their Native Lands, Their Life by Harriet Louise Keeler (1910)
"Nicotiana alata is a deservedly popular plant of easy culture and beautiful bloom
... Nicotiana alata the pure-white and something of the poise of Narcissus ..."
3. The Mechanism of Mendelian Heredity by Thomas Hunt Morgan (1915)
"Two varieties of tobacco, Nicotiana alata grandi- flora and N. ... At the bft a
flower of Nicotiana alata grandiflora; at the right a flower of N. ..."
4. How to Make a Flower Garden: A Manual of Practical Information and Suggestions by Wilhelm Miller (1903)
"Six annuals that re-sow themselves—likely varii'gatus. Nicotiana alata. ...
Nicotiana alata. ..."
5. Our Garden Flowers: A Popular Study of Their Native Lands, Their Life by Harriet Louise Keeler (1910)
"Nicotiana alata is a deservedly popular plant of easy culture and ... Nicotiana alata
the pure-white and something of the poise of Narcissus poeticus. ..."
6. Report by New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station Botanical Dept (1908)
"The flowers, similar in form to Nicotiana alata, had a shorter tube, the petals
being white above and pink beneath. The hybrid bloomed at evening, ..."
7. Application of Rflp & Rapd Molecular Technologies to Plant Breeding: A edited by Andrew Kalinski (1994)
"CC: F200; F600 AB: Three alleles of the self-incompatibility gene of Nicotiana
alata have been cloned and sequenced. A comparison of the sequences shows a ..."