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Definition of Lathyrus pratensis
1. Noun. Scrambling perennial Eurasian wild pea having yellowish flowers and compressed seed pods; cultivated for forage.
Group relationships: Genus Lathyrus, Lathyrus
Generic synonyms: Wild Pea
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lathyrus Pratensis
Literary usage of Lathyrus pratensis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The London Journal of Botany by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1847)
"... Vicia cracca, sepium, lutea, saliva : lathyrus pratensis ;—in all thirty-four
species ; and most of them in profusion." CA JOHNS. ..."
2. The Rothamsted Memoirs on Agricultural Chemistry and Physiology by Rothamsted Experimental Station, John Bennet Lawes, Joseph Henry Gilbert (1893)
"The results relating to these points are given in the third Division of Table IX.
1.—lathyrus pratensis—Yellow or Meadow ..."
3. On Buds and Stipules by John Lubbock (1899)
"176 299 Stipule of lathyrus pratensis . . . . . 176 300, 301 Stipules of Lathyrus
latifolius 177 ... Stipules of lathyrus pratensis 178 304 Shoot ..."
4. The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine by Nathaniel Lloyd and Company (1864)
"... on lathyrus pratensis ; Thr. obscura, common on wheat ... lathyrus pratensis
or Plantago on sand-hills by the sea ..."
5. The Entomologist; an Illustrated Journal of General Entomology by Edward Newman, Royal Entomological Society of London (1882)
"... T. phalerata, in flowers of lathyrus pratensis and Vicia sativa ; T. obscura,
... probably in flowers of Galium verum, lathyrus pratensis, or Plantago ..."
6. The Rothamsted Experiments: Being an Account of Some of the Results of the by John Bennet Lawes, Joseph Henry Gilbert (1895)
"... eight species or varieties of Trifolium, two species of Medicago, Melilotus
leucantha, Lotus corniculatus, Vicia sativa, and lathyrus pratensis. ..."
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