Definition of Reseda luteola

1. Noun. European mignonette cultivated as a source of yellow dye; naturalized in North America.

Exact synonyms: Dyer's Mignonette, Dyer's Rocket, Weld
Group relationships: Genus Reseda
Generic synonyms: Reseda

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Literary usage of Reseda luteola

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

1. Experimental Researches Concerning the Philosophy of Permanent Colours: And by Edward Bancroft (1814)
"PART III. Of Vegetable Adjective Colours. CHAPTER I. Of the Reseda luteola, Linn., or Weld Plant, and some other Vegetable Yellows. ..."

2. English Botany; Or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with Their Essential ...by Sir James Edward Smith, James Sowerby by Sir James Edward Smith, James Sowerby (1798)
"CHAR. Leaves lanceolate, entire, with one tooth on each side at the base. Calyx in 4 segments. SYN. Reseda luteola. Linn. Sj). PI . 643. Huds. Fl. An. 207. ..."

3. Vegetable Teratology: An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual by Maxwell Tylden Masters (1869)
"... as in Reseda luteola (fig. 57), might equally well be placed with fission or multiplication of the Fio. 57.—Branched inflorescence of Reseda luteola. ..."

4. Publications by English Dialect Society (1886)
"Reseda luteola, L..—Prior, p, 70. Dyer's Weed, or Dyer's Green-weed. (1) A common book-name for Genista tinctoria, L.—S.-W. C'umb. Prior, p. 70. ..."

5. The Phytologist: A Popular Botanical Miscellany. edited by George Luxford, Edward Newman (1848)
"Remarks on the Period of Duration of Reseda luteola, Sfc. By GEORGE LAM'SON, Esq.. IN February of the present year, while walking along the railway ..."

6. A Dictionary of English Plant-names by James Britten, Robert Holland (1886)
"Reseda luteola, L.—Prior, p. 70. Dyer's Weed, or Dyer's Green-weed. (1) A common book-name for Genista tinctoria, L.—S.-W. Cumb. Prior, p. 70. ..."

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