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Definition of Aspalathus
1. Noun. Genus of South African heathlike shrubs.
Generic synonyms: Rosid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Papilionoideae, Subfamily Papilionoideae
Member holonyms: Aspalathus Cedcarbergensis, Aspalathus Linearis, Rooibos
Medical Definition of Aspalathus
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Aspalathus
Literary usage of Aspalathus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ladies' Flower-garden of Ornamental Greenouse Plants / by by Loundon (Jane) (1848)
"GENUS XXVIII. aspalathus Lam. THE aspalathus. Lin. Syst. ... The name of aspalathus
is said to be derived from two Greek words, signifying not to extract ..."
2. The Classical Museum by Leonhard Schmitz (1846)
"The plant thus referred to, however, was not the aspalathus of Greece. Indeed it
is doubted whether it belonged to the genus Spartium at all, as Pliny says ..."
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