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Definition of Desmanthus
1. Noun. Genus of American herbs or shrubs with sensitive pinnate leaves and small whitish flowers.
Generic synonyms: Rosid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Papilionoideae, Subfamily Papilionoideae
Member holonyms: Desmanthus Ilinoensis, Prairie Mimosa, Prickle-weed
Lexicographical Neighbors of Desmanthus
Literary usage of Desmanthus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Flora of the Southern United States: Containing an Abridged Description of by Alvan Wentworth Chapman (1897)
"Leaflets numerous, small. * * Flowers perfect and neutral. Petals distinct. 62.
desmanthus. Sterile filaments filiform or petal-like ..."
2. Gartenflora: Monatsschrift Fur Deutsche und Schweizerische Garten- und by Eduard Regel (1868)
"Vor allem müssen wir jedoch einen Irrthum berichtigen, der durch die wahrscheinlich
ausgedehnte Verbreitung des Geitner'schen desmanthus da und dort ..."
3. Hortus Kewensis; Or, A Catalogue of the Plants Cultivated in the Royal by William Aiton (1813)
"Long-twig'd desmanthus. Nat. of the West Indies. Introd. 1774, by Nicholas Joseph
... 4. p. 1047. Spotted-stalk'd desmanthus. Nat. of Jamaica. p. 61. /. 31. ..."
4. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1871)
"desmanthus, a genus of plants of the natural order ... W. and A. place, very fond
of display, and fond of rich j desmanthus NATANS, ..."
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