Definition of Embothrium

1. Noun. Small genus of South American evergreen shrubs or small trees with long willowy branches and flowers in flamboyant terminal clusters.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Embothrium

Embadomonas
Embden-Meyerhof-Parnas pathway
Embden-Meyerhof pathway
Embden ester
Ember Day
Emberings
Emberiza
Emberiza aureola
Emberiza citrinella
Emberiza hortulana
Emberiza schoeniclus
Emberizidae
Embiodea
Embioptera
Embiotocidae
Embothrium
Embothrium coccineum
Embu
Emerald
Emerald City
Emerald Isle
Emergency Alert System
Emerson
Emersonian
Emery
Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy
Emeside
Emetrol
Emil
Emil Hermann Fischer

Literary usage of Embothrium

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1843)
"A few are found in wet bogs or even in shallow pools of fresh water; and one, the embothrium ferrugineum of Cavanilles, grows, according to him, ..."

2. On the Cultivation of the Plants Belonging to the Natural Order of Proteēæ by Joseph Knight (1809)
"embothrium sericeum. Kenn. in Bot. Rep. n. 100. Cum Ic. embothrium cytisoides. Cav. Ic. v. 4. p. 60. t. 386. f. 2. ..."

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