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Definition of Compass plant
1. Noun. North American annual with red or rose-colored flowers.
Generic synonyms: Subshrub, Suffrutex
2. Noun. Any of several plants having leaves so arranged on the axis as to indicate the cardinal points of the compass.
Group relationships: Aster Family, Asteraceae, Compositae, Family Asteraceae, Family Compositae
Generic synonyms: Composite, Composite Plant
Specialized synonyms: Horse Thistle, Lactuca Scariola, Lactuca Serriola, Prickly Lettuce, Rosinweed, Silphium Laciniatum
Lexicographical Neighbors of Compass Plant
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Literary usage of Compass plant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook of Nature-study for Teachers and Parents, Based on the Cornell by Anna Botsford Comstock (1911)
"PRICKLY LETTUCE, A compass plant Teacher's Story The more we know of plants, the
more we admire their ways of attaining success in a world where it is only ..."
2. Landscape Gardening: Notes and Suggestions on Lawns and Lawn Planting by Samuel Parsons (1895)
"compass plant. ' SILPHIUM LACINIATUM. ) Senecio Japonica is one of the handsomest
members of the family. It is of striking habit, grows five feet high, ..."
3. Glimpses of the Cosmos by Lester Frank Ward (1918)
"A New compass plant History.—Written December 3-4, 1897. The observations were
made in September in the vicinity of Belvidere, Kansas. ..."
4. The American Botanist edited by Willard Nelson Clute (1907)
"compass plant FRUITS. BY WILLARD N. CLUTE. FEW people, save the scientists, are
aware that the so-called flowers of the compositae are not really flowers ..."
5. Minnesota Plant Life by Conway MacMillan (1899)
"... compass-plant and the lettuce compass-plant of the Minnesota flora, by twisting
their leaves so that only their edges are presented to the direct light, ..."
6. The Treasury of Botany: A Popular Dictionary of the Vegetable Kingdom; with by John Lindley (1866)
"... stalks of its opposite leaves arc united together so as to form a cup with
the stem in its centre. These two last, with the Compass-plant and others, ..."
7. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun (1895)
"The life of the compass plant is assisted by this placing of the vertical leaves
in the meridian, in that the broad surfaces are placed almost at right ..."
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