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Definition of Crotalaria
1. Noun. Any of various plants of the genus Crotalaria having inflated pods within which the seeds rattle; used for pasture and green-manure crops.
Generic synonyms: Herb, Herbaceous Plant
Group relationships: Genus Crotalaria
Specialized synonyms: American Rattlebox, Crotalaria Sagitallis, Crotalaria Spectabilis, Indian Rattlebox
Definition of Crotalaria
1. n. A genus of leguminous plants; rattlebox.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crotalaria
Literary usage of Crotalaria
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia: Commercial by Edward Balfour (1885)
"crotalaria OCCULTA, the pea violet; grows very common by the roadside between
Cherra and the Eastern ..."
2. Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants by Sir Joseph Paxton (1847)
"... branche* > acuminata 9 crotalaria is a very numerous and widely-distributed
genus ; about one hundred and fifty species are recorded as belonging to it, ..."
3. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"crotalaria Purshii DC, of the southern United States, ... Stamens monadelphous,
their sheath not cleft; anthers of two forms as in crotalaria. ..."
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