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Definition of Butterfly flower
1. Noun. Any plant of the genus Schizanthus having finely divided leaves and showy variegated flowers.
Generic synonyms: Flower
Group relationships: Genus Schizanthus
2. Noun. Shrub or small tree of Dutch Guiana having clusters of pink flowers streaked with purple.
Group relationships: Bauhinia, Genus Bauhinia
Generic synonyms: Bush, Shrub
Literary usage of Butterfly flower
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Introduction to Folk-lore by Marian Roalfe Cox (1895)
"... with the breath—Echoes explained— Doctrine of Pythagoras —Soul as a bird,
butterfly, flower—Souls pervading all nature—Souls of the dead animating ..."
2. Studies of Plant Life in Canada: Wild Flowers, Flowering Shrubs, and Grasses by Catherine Parr Strickland Traill (1906)
"The leaves of the butterfly flower are rough on the surface and hoary; the
seed-pods are also hoary. It is a striking and showy flower, deficient in the ..."
3. Putnam's Garden Handbook by Mae Savell Croy (1917)
"butterfly flower Seed of the schizanthus or butterfly flower should be sown under
... The butterfly flower is equally satisfactory as a house plant or as a ..."
4. Our Garden Flowers: A Popular Study of Their Native Lands, Their Life by Harriet Louise Keeler (1910)
"... butterfly flower, Flowering Plant of Tomato, Flowers of .... Potato, Flowers
of .... Nightshade, Flowers and Fruit of ..."
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