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Definition of Lespedezas
1. lespedeza [n] - See also: lespedeza
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lespedezas
Literary usage of Lespedezas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"All lespedezas are of the easiest culture wherever hardy. ... A. Occidental or
native lespedezas: of upright or erect habit, not showy: stipules and ..."
2. Ornamental Shrubs of the United States (hardy, Cultivated) by Austin Craig Apgar (1910)
"The lespedezas or BUSH ' CLOVERS ' are mainly herbaceous, but one species ...
The lespedezas have alternate 3-bladed leaves, the end blade at some distance ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1902)
"A paper by KK MacKenzie and BF Bush, entitled, 'The lespedezas of Missouri,' was
presented by title. Professor FL Solden delivered an address on the advance ..."
4. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1902)
"The lespedezas of Missouri are reviewed by Mackenzie apd Bush in No. 2 of the
current volume of Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis. ..."
5. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1914)
"The word is also applied to species of related genera, as Medicago. The sweet
clover is Melilotus. Bush and Japan clover are lespedezas. ..."
6. Rhodora by New England Botanical Club (1906)
"Many White Mountain and high northern plants such as Aster radula, Ait., are
common, while no such plants as the Black Raspberry, Desmo- diums or lespedezas ..."
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