Definition of Ixoras

1. ixora [n] - See also: ixora

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ixoras

ixia
ixias
ixiolite
ixl
ixnay
ixocutis
ixodes
ixodian
ixodiasis
ixodic
ixodicide
ixodicides
ixodid
ixodids
ixora
ixoras (current term)
ixtle
ixtles
ixtli
iyoba
iyobas
iyokan
iyokans
izakaya
izakayas
izar
izard
izards
izars
izba

Literary usage of Ixoras

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

1. Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse by Edward Step (1897)
"Description of A flowering shoot of Bouvardia longiflora. Fig. 1, Plate 122. a flower removed ; Fig. 2, a section of the same. ixoras Natural Order ..."

2. Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener and Country Gentlemen (1877)
"Besides the handsome flowers the black glossy flower buds of this plant are effective. Several small plants of ixoras are yielding bright ..."

3. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1915)
"Before pruning ixoras, it is a good plan, after flowering, to keep them on the dry side for about a month. Never, however, allow the plants to suffer for ..."

4. Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener and Home Farmer (1880)
"ixoras are propagated by means of cuttings, which strike ... I prefer be latter principally, because ixoras dislike ..."

5. The Garden: An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Gardening in All Its Branches by William Robinson, Esther Baldwin York (1903)
"In the days when specimen ixoras used to figure largely at the different summer exhibitions this form (now flowering in the stove portion of the T ..."

6. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"LHB ixoras, which are handsome dwarf flowering shrubs, belong to the tropics. ... Many of the Latin names of ixoras are of horticultural forms. ..."

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