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Definition of Fothergilla

1. Noun. Any of several deciduous low-growing shrubs of the genus Fothergilla having showy brushlike spikes of white flowers in spring and fiery red and orange autumn color; grows from Alabama to the Allegheny Mountains.

2. Noun. Small genus of deciduous shrubs of the southeastern United States.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fothergilla

fosterer fosterers fostering fosterings fosterling fosterlings fosterment fosters fostress fostresses

fostriecin fotch fotemustine fother fothered fothergilla (current term) fothering fothers fotive fotmal

fotmals fotograf fotografs fotograph fou fouat fouats foud foudrie foudries

Literary usage of Fothergilla

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

1. Hortus Kewensis; Or, A Catalogue of the Plants Cultivated in the Royal by William Aiton (1811)
"486. Daurian Paeony. Nat. of Siberia. Ir.trod. 179O, by John Bell, Esq. Fl. May and June. H. If . fothergilla. Gen. pi. 922. Cnl. truncatus, integerrimus. ..."

2. Hortus Kewensis: Or, A Catalogue of the Plants Cultivated in the Royal by William Aiton (1789)
"Broad-leav'd fothergilla. 8 foliis ;;cutis. fothergilla Gardeni. ... Narow-leav'd fothergilla: Afo/. of North America. Introd. 1765, by Mr. John Bulb. ..."

3. Arbustrum Americanum: The American Grove, Or, An Alphabetical Catalogue of by Humphry Marshall (1785)
"It grows naturally in a light gravelly foil. fothergilla. fothergilla. ... The Species with us, fothergilla Garden!. Carolinian Pother- gilla. ..."

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