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Definition of Lunaria annua

1. Noun. Southeastern European plant cultivated for its fragrant purplish flowers and round flat papery silver-white seedpods that are used for indoor decoration.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lunaria Annua

Literary usage of Lunaria annua

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

1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1897)
"lunaria annua L. Sp. Pl. 653. 1753. Lunaria biennis Moench, Meth. 126. 1794. Resembles the preceding species when in flower, but the root is annual or ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1901)
"In the case of lunaria annua mentioned above, published by Linnaeus in 1753, we find that Moench subsequently altered the name to biennis in recognition of ..."

3. Hortus Kewensis; Or, A Catalogue of the Plants Cultivated in the Royal by William Aiton (1812)
"lunaria annua. Willden. sp.pl. 3. p. 477. J- Miller illustr. Annual Honesty. Nat. of Germany. Cult. 1570. ..."

4. The American Botanist edited by Willard Nelson Clute (1906)
""lunaria annua, common honesty. Not native to the country, but still to be found in old-fashioned places. ..."

5. The Vascular Flora of Pennsylvania: Annotated Checklist and Atlas by Ann Fowler Rhoads, William M. Klein (1993)
"lunaria annua L. Honesty; Money-plant Herbaceous biennial Cultivated and occasionally escaped to roadsides and waste ground. Lunaria rediviva L. Perennial ..."

6. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1847)
"Very often their circumference is more or less drawn out lengthways, as in Cheiranthus Cheiri, lunaria annua, rediviva, ..."

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