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Definition of Macleaya
1. Noun. A perennial herb of eastern Asia: plume poppy.
Exact synonyms: Genus Macleaya
Generic synonyms: Dilleniid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Family Papaveraceae, Papaveraceae, Poppy Family
Member holonyms: Bocconia, Macleaya Cordata, Plume Poppy
Generic synonyms: Dilleniid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Family Papaveraceae, Papaveraceae, Poppy Family
Member holonyms: Bocconia, Macleaya Cordata, Plume Poppy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Macleaya
Literary usage of Macleaya
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Practical study of malaria and other blood parasites by John William Watson Stephens (1904)
"macleaya.—Differs from Stegomyia in having (i) narrow-curved scales on the centre
... From macleaya, in having scutellum entirely clothed with flat scales. ..."
2. The Mosquitoes of North and Central America and the West Indies by Leland Ossian Howard, Harrison Gray Dyar, Frederick Knab (1917)
"macleaya Theobald, Gen. lns., Dipt., 26 fase., 15, 20,1905. ... Culic., iv, 149,
1907. macleaya Theobald, Mon. Culic., iv, 148, 203, 1907. ..."
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