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Definition of Acroclinium
1. Noun. Genus of herbs and shrubs of Australia and South Africa: everlasting flower; most species usually placed in genus Helipterum.
Generic synonyms: Asterid Dicot Genus
Member holonyms: Acroclinium Roseum, Pink Paper Daisy, Pink-and-white Everlasting
Lexicographical Neighbors of Acroclinium
Literary usage of Acroclinium
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Les fleurs de pleine terre by Vilmorin-Andrieux et cie (1894)
"acroclinium rosé à capitules doubles. Var. à capitules doubles rosés. ...
L'acroclinium rosé et ses variétés demandent une terre saine, légère, siliceuse, ..."
2. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste by Luther Tucker (1873)
"Wild oats, feather grass, and all their various species, are very ornamental in
winter, and mingled with the everlasting flowers—acroclinium, Xeranthemum, ..."
3. Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse by Edward Step (1897)
"acroclinium ROSEUM (rosy). Stems erect, 1 to 2 Species feet high. ... Description of
Upper portions of branches, acroclinium roseum, Plate 136. giving ..."
4. Annual Report of the Wisconsin State Horticultural Society by Wisconsin State Horticultural Society (1881)
"The acroclinium is the prettiest in the garden, of the four mentioned, and should
be in every collection of flowering plants, because it comes up so readily ..."
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