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Definition of Polygala
1. Noun. Type genus of the Polygalaceae: milkwort; senega; snakeroot.
Generic synonyms: Rosid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Family Polygalaceae, Milkwort Family, Polygalaceae
Member holonyms: Milkwort
Definition of Polygala
1. n. A genus of bitter herbs or shrubs having eight stamens and a two-celled ovary (as the Seneca snakeroot, the flowering wintergreen, etc.); milkwort.
Definition of Polygala
1. Noun. Any milkwort of the genus ''Polygala'' ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Polygala
1. a flowering plant [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Polygala
Literary usage of Polygala
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. How to Know the Wild Flowers: A Guide to the Names, Haunts, and Habits of by Frances Theodora Parsons, Marion Satterlee (1900)
"FRINGED polygala. polygala paucifolia. Milkwort Family. ... I must not forget to
mention that delicate and lovely flower of May, the fringed polygala. ..."
2. Vegetable Materia Medica of the United States: Or, Medical Botany by William Paul Crillon Barton (1818)
"polygala seneka. L. Sp. PI. 990. Hot. Mag. t. 1051. Mill. Ph. Diet. ed. vii. t .
5. Repr. in ed. viii. at Art. polygala. Hort . Kew. iii. 6. Walt. 178. ..."
3. A Manual of the Medical Botany of North America by Laurence Johnson (1884)
"polygala Senega. petals 3, unequal, the middle (anterior) one larger, ...
polygala Senega Linné.—Seneca Snakeroot, Senega, Seneka. Description. ..."
4. The Gardeners Dictionary: Containing the Methods of Cultivating and ...by Philip Miller by Philip Miller (1735)
"Greater blue Milkwort. The Species are j ». polygala ; major, alba. Тл- bern.
... CBP Common Milkwort, with a blue Flower. 4. polygala ; »lía ..."
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