Definition of Podalyria

1. Noun. Genus of South African leguminous shrubs often placed in genus Sophora.

Exact synonyms: Genus Podalyria
Generic synonyms: Rosid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Papilionoideae, Subfamily Papilionoideae

Lexicographical Neighbors of Podalyria

Po River
Po valley
Poa nemoralis
Poa pratensis
Poaceae
Pobeda Peak
Pobedy Peak
Pocahontas
Pocahontases
Pocatello
Pocket Cube
Pocket Cubes
Poconos
PodAds
Podalyria
Podargidae
Podargus
Podaxaceae
Podgorica
Podiceps cristatus
Podiceps grisegena
Podiceps nigricollis
Podiceps ruficollis
Podicipedidae
Podicipediformes
Podicipitiformes
Podilymbus
Podilymbus podiceps
Podocarpaceae

Literary usage of Podalyria

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

1. The Green-house Companion: Comprising a General Course of Green-house and by John Claudius Loudon (1825)
"olive-leaved podalyria. P. hirsuta, hairy podalyria. P. cordata, heart-leaved podalyria. These are all pretty Cape plants, flowering from March to June: ..."

2. Hortus Kewensis; Or, A Catalogue of the Plants Cultivated in the Royal by William Aiton (1811)
"Brown mss. Sophora sericea, Andrew s's reposit. 440. Silky podalyria, Nat. of the Cape of Good Hope. Mr. David Nelson. Introd. 1778. Fl. August—November. ..."

3. The Green-house Companion: Comprising a General Course of Green-house and by John Claudius Loudon (1825)
"P. cuneifolia, wedge-leaved podalyria. P. biflora, two-flowered podalyria, BM 753. ... P. cordata, heart-leaved podalyria. These are all pretty Cape plants, ..."

4. Companion to the Botanical Magazine by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1835)
"I have flowering specimens of the same species from Mr. Nuttall, gathered in the Arkansas, and marked podalyria villosa; but that plant has decidedly ..."

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