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Definition of Cassiope
1. Noun. Low tufted evergreen shrubs of colder parts of north temperate regions having moss-like foliage and nodding white or pink flowers.
Generic synonyms: Dilleniid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Ericaceae, Family Ericaceae, Heath Family
Member holonyms: Cassiope Mertensiana, White Heather
Definition of Cassiope
1. Proper noun. (alternative form of Cassiopeia) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cassiope
| Casta Castalian Castanea chrysophylla Castanea crenata |
Literary usage of Cassiope
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States by Asa Gray (1859)
"... resembling Club-Mosses or Heaths. Flowers solitary, nodding on slender erect
peduncles, white or rose-color. (cassiope was the mother of Andromeda.) 1. ..."
2. Introduction to Latin Composition by William Francis Allen (1882)
"... to [the neighborhood of] cassiope. There we were kept by the winds until the
226.. On that day, we set sail after dinner (having dined). ..."
3. The Larvæ of the British Butterflies and Moths by William Buckler (1886)
"Of the full-grown larva after hibernation I have no notes, nor of the pupa, except
that it is very dumpy in figure. (JH, 12, 10, 85.) EREBIA cassiope ..."
4. Catalogue of Diurnal Lepidoptera of the Family Satyridæ in the Collection of by Arthur Gardiner Butler (1808)
"cassiope is the commoner form of this species. Var. cassiope. ... Hipparchia
cassiope, Stephens, III. Haust, ip 63, pi. 8. figs. 1-3 (1828). Oreina cassiope ..."
5. Opuscula: Essays, Chiefly Philological and Ethnographical by Robert Gordon Latham (1860)
"Granting, however, that cassiope (whether the o be sounded as in note or not')
is repugnant to metre, and cassiope to theory, what is their remedy ? ..."
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