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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.
Exact synonyms: Genus Embothrium
Generic synonyms: Dicot Genus, Magnoliopsid Genus
Group relationships: Family Proteaceae, Protea Family, Proteaceae
Member holonyms: Chilean Firebush, Chilean Flameflower, Embothrium Coccineum
Generic synonyms: Dicot Genus, Magnoliopsid Genus
Group relationships: Family Proteaceae, Protea Family, Proteaceae
Member holonyms: Chilean Firebush, Chilean Flameflower, Embothrium Coccineum
Lexicographical Neighbors of Embothrium
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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