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Definition of Robinia viscosa
1. Noun. Small rough-barked locust of southeastern United States having racemes of pink flowers and glutinous branches and seeds.
Generic synonyms: Locust, Locust Tree
Group relationships: Genus Robinia, Robinia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Robinia Viscosa
Literary usage of Robinia viscosa
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Trees of America: Native and Foreign, Pictorially and Botanically by Daniel Jay Browne (1846)
"Robinia viscosa, Robinia glutinosa, Robinia montana, Acacia visqueuse, Synonymes.
... JHE Robinia viscosa usually grows to a height of thirty or forty feet, ..."
2. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"Robinia viscosa Vent. Hort. Cels, ft. 4. 1800. A small tree, with rough bark,
maximum height about 40° and trunk diameter 10'. ..."
3. The Popular Science Monthly (1887)
"Here it was that Robinia viscosa and Shortia ... Robinia viscosa is a common
plant on nearly all the mountain-tops around, but was searched for in vain for ..."
4. Elements of Botany: Or, Outlines of the Natural History of Vegetables by Benjamin Smith Barton (1804)
"... when the wings composed of leaflets are terminated by a single leaflet; as in
Robinia viscosa : 2. ... •fr See th» plate] of Robinia viscosa and Cassi* ..."
5. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1879)
"Thus rose petals yielded 3.4 per cent, of glucose ; petals of Nerium Oleander
7.22 per cent.; Robinia viscosa 1.46 per cent.; Magnolia (species) 1.44 per ..."
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