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Definition of Rhexia
1. Noun. Deer grass.
Generic synonyms: Rosid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Family Melastomaceae, Family Melastomataceae, Meadow-beauty Family, Melastomaceae, Melastomataceae
Member holonyms: Deer Grass, Meadow Beauty
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rhexia
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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