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Definition of Rhamnus carolinianus
1. Noun. Deciduous shrub of eastern and central United States having black berrylike fruit; golden-yellow in autumn.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rhamnus Carolinianus
Literary usage of Rhamnus carolinianus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and by C M Hovey (1854)
"In Bartram's Garden, at Kingsessing, was a tree of a southern species, viz., Rhamnus
carolinianus, which attained the height of 25 feet in twenty years. ..."
2. Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey: Made Under the by United States Department of the Interior, William Hemsley Emory, Spencer Fullerton Baird, Charles Frederic Girard, Timothy Abbott Conrad, George Engelmann, James Hall, Charles Christopher Parry, Arthur Carl Victor Schott, John Torrey (1858)
"rhamnus carolinianus, Walt. Fl. Car. p. 101. Banks of streams, Los Muros,
&c.; Western Texas ; Bigelow. FRANGULA CALIFORNICA, Gray, I. c., & Pl . Wright. ..."
3. A Sketch of the Botany of South-Carolina and Georgia by Stephen Elliott (1821)
"In the structure of its leaves and in its mode of flowering, very nearly allied
to the rhamnus carolinianus, from which it has been separated perhaps ..."
4. Second Report of a Geological Reconnoissance of the Middle and Southern by Richard Owen (1860)
"It is related to rhamnus carolinianus (Walt.), (the Carolina buckthorn), a common
species in Arkansas. The fossil plant is found in the red shales of ..."
5. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1883)
"Great was my disappointment when the rhamnus carolinianus was pointed out to me
as the yellow wood. I felt quite relieved by the forthcoming statement that ..."
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