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Definition of Plumcots
1. plumcot [n] - See also: plumcot
Lexicographical Neighbors of Plumcots
Literary usage of Plumcots
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Stories of Luther Burbank and His Plant School by Effie Young Slusser, Mary Belle Williams, Emma Burbank Beeson (1920)
"A trio of plumcots. ence. A great amount of care and expense has been bestowed
... Tens of thousands of plumcots have been in school, and as a result of ..."
2. How Plants are Trained to Work for Man by Luther Burbank (1921)
"ONE OF THE plumcots This remarkable fruit was produced by hybridizing the Japanese
plum and the apricot. Most plant breeders held that so wide a cross was ..."
3. Luther Burbank: His Methods and Discoveries and Their Practical Application by Luther Burbank, John Whitson, Robert John, Henry Smith Williams, Luther Burbank Society (1914)
"This makes it possible to raise delicious apricot-like fruits in many localities
where the apricot cannot be grown. THE BEST OF THE plumcots—UP To DATE The ..."
4. Luther Burbank: His Methods and Discoveries and Their Practical Application by Luther Burbank, John Whitson, Robert John, Henry Smith Williams, Luther Burbank Society (1914)
"This fruiting capacity is unusual in plumcots of such superior quality, ...
a new race of plumcots as productive as the plum and as valuable as the apricot. ..."
5. Plant-breeding: Comments on the Experiments of Nilsson and Burbank by Hugo de Vries (1907)
"The hybrids of the plums and apricots are called by Burbank plumcots, and a
certain number ... Some plumcots have free stones, but others were cling stones. ..."
6. Outlines of Evolutionary Biology by Arthur Dendy (1912)
"Similarly, the "plumcots" are hybrids between plums aud apricots, which Professor
de V-ries speaks of as " most delicious and beautiful fruits. ..."
7. Plant-breeding: Being Six Lectures Upon the Amelioration of Domestic Plants by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1912)
"... although it is not too much to hope that some of his productions, as the
plumcots, may be the starting points of strong and novel lines of evolution. ..."
8. Stories of Luther Burbank and His Plant School by Effie Young Slusser, Mary Belle Williams, Emma Burbank Beeson (1920)
"A trio of plumcots. ence. A great amount of care and expense has been bestowed
... Tens of thousands of plumcots have been in school, and as a result of ..."
9. How Plants are Trained to Work for Man by Luther Burbank (1921)
"ONE OF THE plumcots This remarkable fruit was produced by hybridizing the Japanese
plum and the apricot. Most plant breeders held that so wide a cross was ..."
10. Luther Burbank: His Methods and Discoveries and Their Practical Application by Luther Burbank, John Whitson, Robert John, Henry Smith Williams, Luther Burbank Society (1914)
"This makes it possible to raise delicious apricot-like fruits in many localities
where the apricot cannot be grown. THE BEST OF THE plumcots—UP To DATE The ..."
11. Luther Burbank: His Methods and Discoveries and Their Practical Application by Luther Burbank, John Whitson, Robert John, Henry Smith Williams, Luther Burbank Society (1914)
"This fruiting capacity is unusual in plumcots of such superior quality, ...
a new race of plumcots as productive as the plum and as valuable as the apricot. ..."
12. Plant-breeding: Comments on the Experiments of Nilsson and Burbank by Hugo de Vries (1907)
"The hybrids of the plums and apricots are called by Burbank plumcots, and a
certain number ... Some plumcots have free stones, but others were cling stones. ..."
13. Outlines of Evolutionary Biology by Arthur Dendy (1912)
"Similarly, the "plumcots" are hybrids between plums aud apricots, which Professor
de V-ries speaks of as " most delicious and beautiful fruits. ..."
14. Plant-breeding: Being Six Lectures Upon the Amelioration of Domestic Plants by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1912)
"... although it is not too much to hope that some of his productions, as the
plumcots, may be the starting points of strong and novel lines of evolution. ..."
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