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Definition of Elsholtzia
1. Noun. Any of various aromatic herbs of the genus Elsholtzia having blue or purple flowers in one-sided spikes.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Elsholtzia
Literary usage of Elsholtzia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Labiatarum Genera Et Species: Or, A Description of the Genera and Species of by George Bentham (1836)
"The three sections of elsholtzia differ, in many respects, from each other
in-habit; but on a closer examination of their characters, these distinctions do ..."
2. Edwards's Botanical Register, Or, Ornamental Flower-garden and Shrubbery by Sydenham Edwards, John Lindley (1829)
"elsholtzia paniculata Willd. iS a true Pogostemon. The genus elsholtzia remains,
... the following genus, which may be placed immediately before elsholtzia ..."
3. The Flora of British India by Joseph Dalton Hooker (1885)
"elsholtzia oppositifolia, Pair. Diet. Suppl. v. 663.. SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA; from
the Salt range and Peshawur to Sikkim, ..."
4. The Golden Poppy by Emory Evans Smith (1902)
"It is certain, however, that the laws will decide that elsholtzia is a different
word from the other, however accidentally it was so published. ..."