Definition of Dentaria

1. Noun. Usually included in genus Cardamine; in some classifications considered a separate genus.


Definition of Dentaria

1. a flower with toothed roots [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dentaria

Denmark Vesey
Dennie
Dennie's infraorbital fold
Dennie's line
Dennis
Dennis Gabor
Dennison
Dennstaedtia
Dennstaedtia punctilobula
Dennstaedtiaceae
Denny
Denonvilliers
Denonvilliers' aponeurosis
Denpasar
Dentaria
Dentaria bulbifera
Dentaria diphylla
Denuce's ligament
Denver
Denver Developmental Screening Test
Denver boot
Denver boots
Denver shunt
Denverite
Denverites
Denys
Denys-Leclef phenomenon
Deo volente

Literary usage of Dentaria

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

1. Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Or, Flower-garden Displayed by John Sims (1812)
"dentaria DIPHYLLA. BROAD-LEAVED. TOOTH-WORT, OR PEPPER-ROOT* ... upon mewing our drawing to Mr. FREDERICK PURSH, he immediately recognized it for dentaria, ..."

2. A Botanical Materia Medica by Jonathan Stokes (1812)
"dentaria bifolia. Leaves ternate. Stems with 2 leaves. ... dentaria bulbifera. Lower leaves pinnate, uppermost simple. L. sp. 912. Bot. arr. 683. ..."

3. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"MORPHOLOGY OF THE ANGIOSPERMS: TRILLIUM; dentaria. Trillium. 839. General appearance.—As one of the plants to illustrate this group we may take the ..."

4. Chamber's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1889)
"dentaria, or CORAL-ROOT (both names due to knobbed root-stock ), is a small genus of Crucifera', represented in Britain by the rare D. bulbifera, ..."

5. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"Maine to Michigan and Pennsylvania. May. Local. dentaria ... dentaria anomala Eames, known only from Connecticut, growing with this species and D. laciniata ..."

6. The Gardeners Dictionary: Containing the Methods of Cultivating and ...by Philip Miller by Philip Miller (1754)
"С. В. P. Seven-leav'd berry- bearing Toothwort. 3. dentaria ... С. В. Р. Five-leav'd Tooth- wort, with rough Leaves. 5. dentaria ..."

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