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Definition of Hardiest
1. hardy [adj] - See also: hardy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hardiest
Literary usage of Hardiest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Select extra-tropical plants readily eligible for industrial culture or by Ferdinand Jacob H. Mueller (1880)
"This tree exudes a kind of Olibanum resin and represents apparently one of the
hardiest species of this and allied genera. Boswellia thurifera, Colebrooke. ..."
2. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"-This plant is the hardiest species, and will stand many degrees of frost.
Hardy as far north as Washington. Var. mollis, Benth. ..."
3. "Liberty": The Image and Superscription on Every Coin Issued by the United by Julius Rubens Ames (1837)
"Yet he gets a high salary, for he makes the largest crop of any other man in the
neighborhood, though none but the hardiest negroes can stand it under him. ..."
4. Italian Characters in the Epoch of Unification (1890)
"ammunition was gone, the fierce Sicilian sun was wearing out the hardiest.
The commander of the first company, who had exposed himself all the day through ..."
5. The English Flower Garden and Home Grounds: Design and Arrangement Shown by by William Robinson (1901)
"By a selection of the hardiest of climbing Roses very beautiful pictures might
be formed in our pleasure grounds and plantations, and we might often see as ..."
6. Elliott's Fruit Book; Or, The American Fruit-grower's Guide in Orchard and by Franklin Reuben Elliott (1854)
"In strong rich soils, throughout the entire Western States, it proves one of the
hardiest, most productive, profitable, as well as best varieties known. ..."
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