Definition of Lavatera

1. Noun. Widespread genus of herbs or softwood arborescent shrubs cultivated for their showy flowers.

Exact synonyms: Genus Lavatera
Generic synonyms: Dilleniid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Family Malvaceae, Mallow Family, Malvaceae
Member holonyms: Lavatera Arborea, Tree Mallow, Velvet-leaf, Velvetleaf

Definition of Lavatera

1. any plant of the lavatera genus [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lavatera

Lausanne
Lautaro Faction of the United Popular Action Movem
Lautaro Popular Rebel Forces
Lautaro Youth Movement
Lauth's canal
Lauth's ligament
Lauth's violet
Lava
Laval
Lavandula
Lavandula angustifolia
Lavandula latifolia
Lavandula officinalis
Lavandula stoechas
Lavasan
Lavatera
Lavatera arborea
Lavdovsky's nucleoid
Laverania
Lavern
Laverna
Laverne
Lavigne
Lavinia
Lavoisier
Lavrenti Pavlovich Beria
Lavukaleve
Law
Law French
Law of Conservation of Ninjutsu

Literary usage of Lavatera

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)
"lavatera. Bractlets 3 to 6, united at base. Axis of the fruit dilated above and exceeding 2. Malva. Bractlets 3, distinct. Axis broad, shorter than the ..."

2. Flora Domestica, Or, The Portable Flower-garden: With Directions for the by Elizabeth Kent, Leigh Hunt (1831)
"... in his Flore du Nord de France, says that the cx-capucins cultivate the lavatera in their gardens, for the sake of the stalks, with the peel of which ..."

3. The Flower Garden: Or, Breck's Book of Flowers; in which are Described All by Joseph Breck (1856)
"A yellow flower, from California, somewhat in the style of a small Sun-flower ; not likely to become very popular. lavatera. ..."

4. Select Extra-tropical Plants Readily Eligible for Industrial Culture Or by Ferdinand von Mueller (1880)
"The bulky foliage has proved valuable for fodder, and so has that of lavatera plebeja (Sims). Lawsonia alba, Lamarck. ..."

5. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th Series by California academy of sciences (1900)
"... Spindle in the Pollen-Mother-Cells of lavatera BY EDITH SUMNER BYXBEE WITH FOUR PLATES Issued October 31, ¡goo SAN FRANCISCO PUBLISHED BY THE ACADEMY ..."

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