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Definition of Bignonias
1. bignonia [n] - See also: bignonia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bignonias
Literary usage of Bignonias
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The MAGAZINE of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and (1861)
"THE bignonias are among the most extensive tribes of climbing plants, mostly
natives of tropical climes, and requiring a high temperature to grow and bloom ..."
2. Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants by Sir Joseph Paxton (1842)
"It is a ripeness of this character which we have observed to be essential to
bignonias and the like objects. The two or three years passed without flowers ..."
3. Cultivated Plants: Their Propagation and Improvement by Frederick William Thomas Burbridge (1877)
"This operation should be performed in a close heated case. bignonias and ...
It is one of the finest of all the bignonias, ..."
4. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"As with most greenhouse climbing plants, the roots like considerable freedom;
but with bignonias the roots must be somewhat restricted (though not to the ..."
5. Comparative Anatomy of the Vegetative Organs of the Phanerogams and Ferns by Anton Bary (1884)
"Fig. ij shows very similar phenomena to those in the bignonias above noticed, p.
574 under II. In the younger round stems or branches, ..."
6. Travels in the Interior of Brazil, Principally Through the Northern by George. Gardner (1849)
"... several species of Laurus, large bignonias, which at this season were covered
with their bright, yellow blossoms. Among these grew many climbing shrubs, ..."
7. The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and (1880)
"The family of the bignonias is one of the most interesting the class of
tendril-climbers, ... Among the bignonias are found tendrils with various curious ..."
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