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Definition of Leather flower

1. Noun. Scandent subshrub of southeastern United States having large red-purple bell-shaped flowers with leathery recurved sepals.

2. Noun. Woody vine of the southern United States having purple or blue flowers with leathery recurved sepals.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Leather Flower

leasts leastways leastwise leasure leasures leasy leat leather-hard leather-jacket leather-lunged

leather carp leather cheerio leather cheerios leather fern leather flower (current term) leather leaf leather leafs leather lunged leather queen leather soap

leather strip leather working leatherback leatherback turtle leatherbacks leatherbound leathercloth leathercloths leathercraft

Literary usage of Leather flower

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Sydenham Society's Lexicon of Medicine and the Allied Sciences ...by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society, Robert Gray Mayne by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society, Robert Gray Mayne (1882)
"The C. mauritiana, Lamk. C. vior'na, Linn. leather flower. Hab. Southern United States. Has similar properties to C. vitalba. Also, a synonym of C. vitalba. ..."

2. The Vines of Northeastern America: Fully Illustrated from Original Sketches by Charles Stedman Newhall (1897)
"... each seed tipped with the greatly lengthened feathery or hairy style. Clustered achenes. Woody, climbing vines (herbaceous in Leather-Flower, C, ..."

3. Annual Report of the State Horticultural Society of Missouri by Missouri State Horticultural Society (1895)
"Leather-flower. A trailing or climbing vine, having very peculiar flowers. Found in Bates, Boone, Carroll, Greene, Harrison, Henry, ..."

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