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Definition of Drypis
1. Noun. Spiny-leaved perennial herb of southern Europe having terminal clusters of small flowers.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Drypis
Literary usage of Drypis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Rock-garden by Reginald John Farrer (1919)
"drypis SPINOSA. Rockies, where it forms mats and masses in the shingle, exactly
like those of D. ... drypis spinosa is a little branching, thorny-leaved ..."
2. A General System of Botany Descriptive and Analytical: In Two Parts by Emmanuel Le Maout, Joseph Decaisne, Joseph Dalton Hooker (1876)
"EMBRYO more or less curved, peripheric or annular (drypis), or nearly straight
in the ... drypis. ..."