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Definition of Crambe maritima

1. Noun. Perennial of coastal sands and shingles of northern Europe and Baltic and Black Seas having racemes of small white flowers and large fleshy blue-green leaves often used as potherbs.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Crambe Maritima

Literary usage of Crambe maritima

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

1. The Repertory of Patent Inventions: And Other Discoveries and Improvements (1807)
"... has surely no small claims to our gratitude : as such, I must ever regard those of the late Mr. Curtis, from whose pamphlet upon the crambe maritima, ..."

2. The American Gardener's Calendar: Adapted to the Climate and Seasons of the by Bernard M'Mahon, John Jay Smith (1857)
"The crambe maritima, or Sea Kale, being yet very little known in the United ... As an article of food, the crambe maritima appears to be better known in ..."

3. American Gardener's Calendar: Adapted to the Climates and Seasons of the by Bernard M'Mahon (1806)
"crambe maritima, or Sea Kale. The crambe maritima, or Sea Kale, being yet very little known in the United States, though a most excellent garden vegetable, ..."

4. The Repertory of Patent Inventions: And Other Discoveries and Improvements (1807)
"... has surely no small claims to our gratitude : as such, I must ever regard those of the late Mr. Curtis, from whose pamphlet upon the crambe maritima, ..."

5. The American Gardener's Calendar: Adapted to the Climate and Seasons of the by Bernard M'Mahon, John Jay Smith (1857)
"The crambe maritima, or Sea Kale, being yet very little known in the United ... As an article of food, the crambe maritima appears to be better known in ..."

6. American Gardener's Calendar: Adapted to the Climates and Seasons of the by Bernard M'Mahon (1806)
"crambe maritima, or Sea Kale. The crambe maritima, or Sea Kale, being yet very little known in the United States, though a most excellent garden vegetable, ..."

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