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Definition of Lasthenia
1. Noun. Small genus of herbs of Pacific coast of North and South America.
Generic synonyms: Asterid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Aster Family, Asteraceae, Compositae, Family Asteraceae, Family Compositae
Member holonyms: Goldfields, Lasthenia Chrysostoma
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lasthenia
Literary usage of Lasthenia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"lasthenia, Cass. Head many-flowered, with 5 to 15 pistillate rays; all the flowers
... The first section is intermediate between the genuine lasthenia and ..."
2. Plant Names, Scientific and Popular, Including in the Case of Each Plant the by Albert Brown Lyons (1900)
"Gum resin, called Laser, acrid, bitter, reputed purgative. 1140. lasthenia, Cass.
lasthenia. Compositae. Named for lasthenia, a pupil of Plato. Syn. ..."
3. Woman: In All Ages and in All Countries by Mitchell Carroll, Alfred Brittain, Edward Bagby Pollard, Pierce Butler, John Robert Effinger, Hugo Paul Thieme, Hermann Schoenfeld, Bartlett Burleigh James, John Ruse Larus (1907)
"Nothing but what is commendable is known of her, but her reputation has suffered
from the association of her name with that of lasthenia. ..."
4. Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gamopetalae, Being a Second Edition by Asa Gray (1888)
"(Dedicated "J the discoverer to Charles Crocker, Esq., of San Francisco, one of
the most Habit, involucre, flowers, and receptacle essentially of lasthenia ..."
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