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Definition of Gomphrena
1. Noun. Genus of tropical herbs or subshrubs having flowers in close heads; tropical America and Australia.
Generic synonyms: Caryophylloid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Amaranth Family, Amaranthaceae, Family Amaranthaceae
Member holonyms: Bachelor's Button, Globe Amaranth, Gomphrena Globosa
Definition of Gomphrena
1. Noun. Any plant of the genus ''Gomphrena'', the globe amaranths. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gomphrena
Literary usage of Gomphrena
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Flower Garden: Or, Breck's Book of Flowers; in which are Described All by Joseph Breck (1856)
"A pretty hardy annual, with blue, and a variety with white, flowers, in clusters
or heads ; from June to August; two feet high. gomphrena. Globe Amaranth. ..."
2. Flora historica: or, The three seasons of the British parterre historically by Henry Phillips (1829)
"... until the time of removing them into the open garden. GLOBE AMARANTH.
gomphrena Globosa. ff Natural Order same as the foregoing, but of the Class ..."
3. Flora Telluriana by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque (1836)
"The real gomphrena have only one capitate stigma says Smith; but the Genus appears
to have been formed on the capitate flowers and mere habit! all those ..."
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