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Definition of Phytolacca dioica
1. Noun. Fast-growing herbaceous evergreen tree of South America having a broad trunk with high water content and dark green oval leaves.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Phytolacca Dioica
Literary usage of Phytolacca dioica
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and by C M Hovey (1865)
"Phytolacca dioica, an Australian evergreen, I believe, of large size, resembling
somewhat the Magnolia grandiflora, but the foliage is of a lighter green. ..."
2. A General System of Botany Descriptive and Analytical: In Two Parts by Emmanuel Le Maout, Joseph Decaisne, Joseph Dalton Hooker (1876)
"The young shoots and leaves of Phytolacca dioica, are recommended for cultivation
as a potherb, being eaten, cooked like asparagus, in the United States, ..."
3. Select Extra-tropical Plants, Readily Eligible for Industrial Culture Or by Ferdinand von Mueller (1891)
"(Phytolacca dioica, Linné.) Southern Brazil and La Plata-States. The Ombu.
A deciduous tree for shady avenues, grown in South-Europe as well as in many ..."
4. Comparative Anatomy of the Vegetative Organs of the Phanerogams and Ferns by Anton Bary (1884)
"... the case in most fleshy roots of this category, eg Beta, and in the stem of
Phytolacca dioica. (2) The intermediate tissue consists both of parenchyma ..."
5. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1883)
"... alkaline salts arc not crystallizable.—Am. Jour. Phar., July, 1881, p. 325;
from Compt. Rend., xci,8J6-858. Phytolacca dioica—Constituents of the Fruit. ..."
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