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Definition of Louseworts
1. lousewort [n] - See also: lousewort
Lexicographical Neighbors of Louseworts
Literary usage of Louseworts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun (1902)
"Unlike the species of Cow-wheat, Yellow-rattle, and Eyebright, however, nearly
all the louseworts are perennial, and accordingly differ from them also in ..."
2. Minnesota Plant Life by Conway MacMillan (1899)
"The cow-wheats, louseworts, yellow-rattles and ... colors—white in the cow-wheat,
yellow in the rattlebox, cream colored in the louseworts, and lilac ..."
3. Reports of the Survey (1899)
"The cow-wheats, louseworts, yellow-rattles and ... yellow in the rattlebox, cream
colored in the louseworts, and lilac or purplish in the eyebright. ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"They have the name louseworts (qv) because of an old belief that they produce a
lousy disease in sheep. Their acridity renders them obnoxious to sheep; ..."
5. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1896)
"THE chief features of this remarkably insular flora are the absence of willows,
sedges, the heath family, the mountain sorrel, the dandelion, the louseworts ..."
6. The Popular Science Monthly (1878)
"... silènes, and louseworts, are equally superior to the allied species of the
plains. Again, Dr. Müller has discovered that when there are showy and ..."
7. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris, George Grove (1877)
"worts, silenes, and louseworts are equally superior to the allied species of the
plains. Again, Dr. Müller has discovered that when there are showy and ..."
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