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Definition of Abelia
1. Noun. Any of various deciduous or evergreen ornamental shrubs of the genus Abelia having opposite simple leaves and cymes of small white or pink or purplish flowers; Asia and Mexico.
Definition of Abelia
1. Noun. (context: botany) Any of the various honeysuckles of the genus ''Abelia'' ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Abelia
1. an Asian or Mexican shrub [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Abelia
Literary usage of Abelia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ornamental Shrubs of the United States (hardy, Cultivated) by Austin Craig Apgar (1910)
"—Chinese abelia. [Twig cuttings, in summer ; layers, in spring.] KEY TO THE
SPECIES OF abelia * Leaves thick, nearly or fully evergreen. (A.) A. Sepals 5. ..."
2. The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and by C M Hovey (1860)
"... has brought to our notice the singular beauty of a little known hardy shrub,
called abelia TRIFLORA. " I consider it," he writes, " one of the very ..."
3. Practical Landscape Gardening: The Importance of Careful Planning, Locating by Robert B. Cridland (1920)
"... 2 S abelia grandiflora 3 5 Viburnum molle 4 s abelia grandiflora 6 5 abelia
grandiflora 5 5 Viburnum molle 7 5 Viburnum molle 8 5 abelia grandiflora 10 ..."
4. Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society by Horticultural Society of London (1846)
"It has no beauty as an object of cultivation, and is only interesting as a distinct
half-hardy species. August 30, 1845. 4. abelia RUPESTRIS. ..."
5. Gardening in California: Landscape and Flower by John McLaren (1908)
"THE abelia is one of our most free-flowering shrubs, being in flower nearly every
... The flowers of the abelia, which are lilac or pink and bell- shaped, ..."
6. Ladies' Flower-garden of Ornamental Greenouse Plants / by by Loundon (Jane) (1848)
"Most of the genera included in this order contain only hardy plante. GENUS I.
abelia Dec. THE abelia. Lin. Syst. ..."
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