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Definition of Lathyrus niger
1. Noun. Perennial of Europe and North Africa; foliage turns black in drying.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lathyrus Niger
Literary usage of Lathyrus niger
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Flowers, Fruits and Leaves by John Lubbock (1886)
"lathyrus niger. FIG. 89.—Lathyrus aphaca. unlike its congeners. Fig. 88 represents
L. niger with leaves of the ordinary type. In the yellow pea (L. aphaca, ..."
2. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1911)
"Red, violet and then black—many of the higher fungi, especially Agaricaceae;
wheat seedlings, potatoes, apples, nuts, lathyrus niger, secretions of certain ..."
3. Mountain and moor by John Ellor Taylor, Josiah Wood Whymper (1879)
"lathyrus niger is another Alpine member of the same order, confined to the Scottish
mountain valleys. ..."
4. Transactions and Proceedings by Perthshire Society of Natural Science (1903)
"... mainly from White's Flora of Perthshire). Vicia Orobus, DC.— Kinloch- Origanum
vulgare, ] Blair-Atholl. Rannoch and Glen Tilt. lathyrus niger, Wimm. ..."
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