Definition of Rhexia

1. Noun. Deer grass.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Rhexia

Rheinberg microscope
Rheinland
Rhemish
Rhenish
Rhese projection
Rhesus blood group
Rhesus factor
Rhesus system
Rhetian
Rheum australe
Rheum cultorum
Rheum emodi
Rheum palmatum
Rheum rhabarbarum
Rheum rhaponticum
Rhexia (current term)
Rhian
Rhibhus
Rhincodon
Rhincodon typus
Rhincodontidae
Rhine
Rhine River
Rhine wine
Rhinegrave
Rhinegraves
Rhineland
Rhineland-Palatinate
Rhinobatidae
Rhinoceros antiquitatis

Literary usage of Rhexia

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

1. Plant Life of Alabama: An Account of the Distribution, Modes of Association by Charles Theodore Mohr (1901)
"Frequent. Common in the pine barrens of the Coast plain. Type locality: "Hab. in sylvis Carolina« et Georgiae." Herí). Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. Rhexia ..."

2. A Hand-book to the Order Lepidoptera by William Forsell Kirby (1897)
"It feeds on the buds and blossoms of Rhexia virginica, and other plants, and also on tobacco, to which it is very destructive by destroying the main shoot. ..."

3. Handbook of Hardy Herbaceous & Alpine Flowers by William Sutherland (1871)
"... Rhexia virginica.—This is the only hardy species of this fine order of plants in cultivation in this country. It is a rare plant, and likely to continue ..."

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