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Definition of Jewels-of-opar
1. Noun. Erect plant with tuberous roots and terminal panicles of red to yellow flowers; southwestern North America to Central America; widely introduced elsewhere.
Generic synonyms: Flame Flower, Flame-flower, Flameflower, Talinum Aurantiacum
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jewels-of-opar
Literary usage of Jewels-of-opar
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Primitive Society: The Beginnings of the Family & the Reckoning of Descent by Edwin Sidney Hartland (1921)
"TARZAN AND THE JEWELS OF OPAR, 6s. net. TARZAN THE UNTAMED, js. 6d. net. A PRINCESS
OF MARS, 6s. net. THE GODS OF MARS, 6s. net. THE WARLORD OF MARS, ..."
2. John Donne, Sometime Dean of St. Paul's: A.D. 1621-1631 by Augustus Jessopp (1897)
"THE BEASTS OF TARZAN, 6s. net. THE SON OF TARZAN, 6s. net. JUNGLE TALES OF TARZAN,
6s. net. TARZAN AND THE JEWELS OF OPAR, 6s. net. TARZAN THE UNTAMED, 7$. ..."
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