Definition of Elsholtzia

1. Noun. Any of various aromatic herbs of the genus Elsholtzia having blue or purple flowers in one-sided spikes.

Generic synonyms: Herb, Herbaceous Plant
Group relationships: Genus Elsholtzia

Lexicographical Neighbors of Elsholtzia

els
elsamitrucin
else
else(ip)
elsen
elseness
elsewhat
elsewhen
elsewhence
elsewhere
elsewheres
elsewhither
elsewise
elshin
elshins
elsholtzia (current term)
elsilimomab
elsin
elsins
elt
eltchi
eltchis
eltoprazine
elts
eluant
eluants
eluate
eluates
elucidate
elucidated

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. ..."

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