|
|
Definition of Meadow beauty
1. Noun. Any of several plants of the genus Rhexia usually having pink-purple to magenta flowers; eastern North America.
Group relationships: Genus Rhexia, Rhexia
Generic synonyms: Subshrub, Suffrutex
Lexicographical Neighbors of Meadow Beauty
Literary usage of Meadow beauty
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, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"1818. i MEADOW-BEAUTY FAMILY. Herbs (shrubs or trees in tropical regions), with
opposite 3-g-nerved simple leaves, and regular perfect, often showy, ..."
2. Southern Wild Flowers and Trees: Together with Shrubs, Vines and Various by Alice Lounsberry (1901)
"Originally it has been imported from eastern Asia. When well grown and hung with
its deep pink, crinkly- bloom it is very beautiful. THE MEADOW=BEAUTY ..."
3. Nature's Garden: An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect by Neltje Blanchan (1907)
"Suggesting a brilliant magenta evening primrose in form, the meadow-beauty is
likewise a rather niggardly bloomer, only a few flowers in each cluster ..."
4. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau (1906)
"... the paniculatum the most delicate. To-day and yesterday quite warm, or hot,
again. I am struck again and again by the richness of the meadow-beauty ..."
5. Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States by Asa Gray (1859)
"MEADOW-BEAUTY. Calyx-tube urn-shaped, coherent with the ovary below, and continued
above it, persistent, 4-cleft at the apex. Petals 4, convolute in the bud ..."
Other Resources:
