Definition of Brasenia

1. Noun. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Brasenia

Brandt syndrome
Brandy
Brangelina
Branham's sign
Branhamella
Branhamella catarrhalis
Brannock Device
Brannock Devices
Branson
Branta
Branta bernicla
Branta canadensis
Branta leucopsis
Braque
Brasdor's method
Brasenia
Brasenia schreberi
Brasil
Brasilia

Literary usage of Brasenia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report (1900)
"... OF brasenia PELTATA PURSH. BY CHARLES A. DAVIS, ALMA. [Abstract.] The freshly gathered seeds of this species were placed in water in the fall and kept ..."

2. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1888)
"... the Kittatinny Mountains to that of the pine barrens and other sandy coast regions. ON THE HISTOLOGY OF THE VEGETATIVE ORGANS OF BRAsENIA PELTATA PURSH. ..."

3. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"brasenia. Stems slender, coated with gelatinous matter, branching. ... brasenia Schreb. Gen. PI. 372. 1789. Stem slender, several feet long, branching, ..."

4. Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club by Torrey Botanical Club (1894)
"brasenia Schreb. Gen. PL 372 (1789). 1690. brasenia purpurea (Michx.) Gasp, in Engl. & Franti. ... brasenia Schreberi Gmel. Syst. 2: 853 (1796), name only. ..."

5. Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan by Asiatic Society of Japan (1881)
"... ignorant of the creeping -of “ the roots of the brasenia peltata), being “ more and ... who suggests that it may be but a second name of the brasenia, ..."

6. Plant Life of Alabama: An Account of the Distribution, Modes of Association by Charles Mohr (1901)
"brasenia Schreb. Gen. PI. 372. 1789. WATER SHIELD. Michx. Fl. Bor. ... brasenia purpurea ( Michx. ) Casp. in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pfl. 3, pt. 2 : 6. 1890. ..."

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