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Definition of Dicentra
1. Noun. North American and Asian herbs with divided leaves and irregular flowers.
Generic synonyms: Dilleniid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Family Fumariaceae, Fumariaceae, Fumitory Family
Member holonyms: Bleeding Heart, Dicentra Spectabilis, Lyre-flower, Lyreflower, Dicentra Cucullaria, Dutchman's Breeches
Definition of Dicentra
1. n. A genus of herbaceous plants, with racemes of two-spurred or heart-shaped flowers, including the Dutchman's breeches, and the more showy Bleeding heart (D. spectabilis).
Definition of Dicentra
1. a perennial herb [n -S]
Medical Definition of Dicentra
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Dicentra
Literary usage of Dicentra
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse by Edward Step (1896)
"dicentra The flowers are from 1 to 2 inches across, and appear in April and May.
... Genus dicentra dicentra (Greek, dis, two, and kentron, a spur or goad). ..."
2. Landscape Gardening: Notes and Suggestions on Lawns and Lawn Planting by Samuel Parsons (1891)
"The spring meadow saffron (Bulbocodium vernum) is perhaps the earliest-flowering
hardy bulb, and bears purple BLEEDING HEART. (dicentra ..."
3. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention (1902)
"Investigations on the alkaloid of the related dicentra canadensis are also being
carried on. School of Pharmacy, Unii*. of ]Vis. THE PRESENCE OF ARSENIC IN ..."
4. Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and edited by Charles Mason Hovey (1852)
"May and June, are now before us; one ornamented with a ^colored lithograph of
the beautiful dicentra ..."
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