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Definition of Potentillas
1. potentilla [n] - See also: potentilla
Lexicographical Neighbors of Potentillas
Literary usage of Potentillas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Popular Science Monthly (1888)
"This is a very interesting fact, because the native color of the potentillas is
yellow ; but the mountain species, and many other kinds, have varied to ..."
2. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1901)
"The American potentillas are generally rather unattractive plants with small ...
potentillas are prop, by division or seed, the hybrids only by division. ..."
3. Wild Flowers of the North American Mountains by Julia W. Henshaw (1915)
"In studying the potentillas it is wise to refer to the ... The differences between
the foliage of the potentillas and that of the Ranunculi have already ..."
4. The Encyclopædia of Geography: Comprising a Complete Description of the by Hugh Murray, William Wallace, Robert Jameson, William Jackson Hooker, William Swainson, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1837)
"... Senecio cymbalaria, différent potentillas : the Gentians and ... Vicia gigantea,
several Rubí and potentillas ..."
5. Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener and Country Gentlemen (1873)
"Leaving aside, as foreign to our present purpose, the fruit-bearing genera, we
may claim for the potentillas a high rank among the ornamental plants of the ..."
6. Spring; Or, The Causes, Appearances, and Effects, of the Seasonal by Robert Mudie, George Baxter (1837)
"The bramble, various mulberries, especially of cold, upland, and northern places,
the strawberries, the roses, and the potentillas or cinquefoils, ..."
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