Definition of Grandiflora

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Grandiflora

grandfather-in-law
grandfather clause
grandfather clauses
grandfather clock
grandfather clocks
grandfather paradox
grandfather paradoxes
grandfathered
grandfatherhood
grandfathering
grandfatherless
grandfatherly
grandfathers
grandidierite
grandific
grandiflora (current term)
grandifloras
grandiloquence
grandiloquences
grandiloquent
grandiloquently
grandiloquism
grandiloquisms
grandiloquous
grandiose
grandiose delusion
grandiose delusions
grandiose type of paranoid disorder
grandiosely
grandioseness

Literary usage of Grandiflora

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

1. The Botanical Magazine, Or, Flower-garden Displayed: In which the Most by William Curtis (1792)
"ERICA grandiflora. GREAT-FLOWERED HEATH. ... ERICA grandiflora foliis ... given of the grandiflora in the Suppl. Plant. accords fo ill with our plant, ..."

2. British Phaenogamous Botany, Or, Figures and Descriptions of the Genera of ...by William Baxter by William Baxter (1839)
"Mel'Mis Melissophyllum, anil M. grandiflora, (Engl. Bot. t. 577, & t. 636.) -art, considered by the most eminent Botanists of the present day to be mere ..."

3. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and ...by Liberty Hyde Bailey by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"Diana x S. grandiflora. GEORGE V. NASH. Pseudobulbs small, with 1 or rarely 2 small flat Ivs. : fls. from the top of the pseudobulbs, brightly colored; ..."

4. Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants by Sir Joseph Paxton (1847)
"Like its allies, JE. grandiflora is a stove species, and one of great worth, if only from naturally producing its handsome flowers in winter; ..."

5. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"... as this involves less labor, but the cuttings make the better plants, в. grandiflora and its many varieties are garden forms of tí. aristata. ..."

6. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste by Luther Tucker (1871)
"... grandiflora. pretty shrub is still but little known in this country, only one or two nur- •*- series keeping it as a specialty. ..."

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