Lexic.us

Definition of Chilopsis

1. Noun. One species: desert willow.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chilopsis

Literary usage of Chilopsis

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

1. Biodiversity and the Management of the Madrean Archipelago: The Sky Islands edited by Leonard F. DeBano (1999)
"Interestingly, high variation in numbers of common visitors to chilopsis ... However, chilopsis appeared to be the only abundant source of nectar in the ..."

2. Forest Trees of the Pacific Slope by George Bishop Sudworth (1908)
"The family comprises nearly 100 genera, 5 of which occur in the United States, while 3 of these, Crescentia, Catalpa, and chilopsis, are groups of trees ..."

3. The Silva of California by Willis Linn Jepson (1910)
"Capsule long, linear, terete. Seeds oblong, thin, with the wing at each end replaced by a tuft of soft hairs.—One species. 1. chilopsis saligna Don. ..."

4. Ecology, Diversity and Sustainability of the Middle Rio Grande Basin edited by Deborah M. Finch, Joseph A. Tainter (1996)
"(1978) as four series: cottonwood-chilopsis (chilopsis spp. ... series with the cottonwood-chilopsis series subdivided into a desert willow (C. ..."

5. Mammals of the Mexican Boundary of the United States: A Descriptive by Edgar Alexander Mearns (1907)
"... is a grove of ash trees, seven of which measure from 0.3 to 0.5 meter in diameter and from 15 to 20 meters (50 to 80 feet) in height. chilopsis LINEARIS ..."

6. The Canadian Entomologist by Charles James Stewart Bethune, W. Saunders, Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), E. B. Reed, Entomological Society of Ontario (1892)
"This moth was bred from thin net-like cocoons found on terminal shoots of chilopsis saligna, August 25, the moths issuing Aug. 28. The cocoon is very thin, ..."

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