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Definition of Hedysarum
1. Noun. Genus of herbs of north temperate regions.
Generic synonyms: Rosid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Papilionoideae, Subfamily Papilionoideae
Member holonyms: Hedysarum Boreale, Sweet Vetch, French Honeysuckle, Hedysarum Coronarium, Sulla
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hedysarum
Literary usage of Hedysarum
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Botany of the United States North of Virginia: Comprising Descriptions of by Lewis Caleb Beck (1848)
"Northern hedysarum. 18. LESPEDEZA. Midi.—Lespedeza. ... Tarr. fy Or. hedysarum
reticulatum ... L. hirta Ell. Torr. d/- Gr. hedysarum ..."
2. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1897)
"hedysarum alpinum var. Americanum Michx. Fl. Bor. hedysarum boreale Nutt. Gen.
2: 11o. 1818. ... Occurs also in northeastern Asia. June-July. 2. hedysarum ..."
3. Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse by Edward Step (1896)
"Although the genus includes a number of handsome plants, hedysarum coronarium is
almost ... Therefore hedysarum may get its popular name on account of its ..."
4. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"In many leguminous plants, such as Ornithopus, hedysarum (fig. 17), Entada,
Coronilla and the gum-arabic plant (Acacia arabica), the fruit becomes a ..."
5. Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club by Torrey Botanical Club (1894)
"hedysarum hum if ns um Muhl. Cat. 66 (1813), in part. ... hedysarum obtusum Pursh,
Fl. Am. Sept. 482 (1814), not Muhl. Desmodium obtusum DC Prodr. ..."
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