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Definition of Lepidium
1. Noun. Cosmopolitan genus of annual and biennial and perennial herbs: cress.
Generic synonyms: Dilleniid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Brassicaceae, Cruciferae, Family Brassicaceae, Family Cruciferae, Mustard Family
Member holonyms: Common Garden Cress, Garden Pepper Cress, Lepidium Sativum, Pepper Grass, Pepperwort
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lepidium
Literary usage of Lepidium
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)
"Probably to be found in N. California and perhaps southward in the Sierra Nevada.
24. lepidium, Linn. PEPPER-GRASS. Pod orbicular or obovate, ..."
2. A Sketch of the Botany of South-Carolina and Georgia by Stephen Elliott (1824)
"It is said to grow in pastures intermingling with the C. Didyma, and to be a
larger species. lepidium. GEN. PL. 1077. ..."
3. The Microscopy of Vegetable Foods: With Special Reference to the Detection by Andrew Lincoln Winton, Josef Moeller (1906)
"Several species of lepidium, notably L. campestre Br. and L. sativum L., are
common weeds. The small seeds arc brown in color and more or less flattened. ..."
4. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1843)
"There is but one species of this genus, which is a native of the West Indies at
Puerto Rico, where it is cultivated with Musa paradisiaca and lepidium ..."
5. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1897)
"lepidium intermedium A. Gray, Man. Ed. 2. 1856. Not A. Rich. 1847. Much like L.
ruderale and L. Virginicum. Basal leaves pinnatifid. ..."
6. The History of the County of Dublin by John D'Alton (1838)
"... fox glove, a beautiful herbaceous plant, much used in medicine; a variety
thereof with white flowers ; lepidium ..."
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