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Definition of Ononis spinosa
1. Noun. Eurasian plant having loose racemes of pink or purple flowers and spiny stems and tough roots.
Group relationships: Genus Ononis, Ononis
Generic synonyms: Subshrub, Suffrutex
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ononis Spinosa
Literary usage of Ononis spinosa
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Wild flowers worth notice by Phebe Lankester (1879)
"ononis spinosa. THIS plant belongs to the Pea-flower family, or Leguminosae.
It is a low spreading little shrub, with hard, tough, trailing roots, ..."
2. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1871)
"A substance existing in the root of ononis spinosa ; discovered by Reinsch (loc.
dt. ... The root of the spinons rest-harrow ( ononis spinosa) contains, ..."
3. The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine by Nathaniel Lloyd and Company (1884)
"It occurred locally near Deal in the early part of July, amongst ononis spinosa
and Onobrychis saliva, and I thought at once it was something new. ..."
4. C.E. Hobbs' Botanical Hand-book: Of Common Local, English, Botanical and by Charles E. Hobbs (1876)
"Pl. cultivated forage plant. see ononis spinosa. analogous to ononis spinosa.
tt tt tt Rt. diu. det. ape. tt tt Ju. external^ in cancer. see Onopordon ..."
5. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention (1897)
"ononis spinosa, L.— Constituents of the Root.—In 1842 H. Reinsch obtained from
the roots of ononis spinosa, L., the glucoside ononin. ..."
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