Lexic.us

Definition of Salix repens

1. Noun. Small trailing bush of Europe and Asia having straggling branches with silky green leaves of which several varieties are cultivated.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Salix Repens

Literary usage of Salix repens

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

1. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1877)
"Domingo, June 5 Fertilisation of salix repens DURING May I was watching the movements of the insects on a plant of salix repens. when I noticed some frets ..."

2. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Francis Wall Oliver, Anton Kerner von Marilaun, Marian (Balfour) Busk (1895)
"... straight, erect branches, each of which bears about 25 leaves; salix repens, on the other hand, is a low shrub with a procumbent stem and slender, ..."

3. A Contribution to Our Knowledge of Seedlings by John Lubbock (1892)
"The cotyledons of salix repens (fig. 673) are oblong-oval, petiolate, very small and show ... Stem in the early seedling stage erect, terete, salix repens, ..."

4. On the Lignite Formation of Bovey Tracey, Devonshire by William Pengelly, Oswald Heer (1863)
"salix repens, Linn.1? Fig. 7 a. Betula, nana, Linn. Fig. 7 b. salix repens, Linn.? Figs. 8 & 9, very highly magnified portion of wood. ..."

5. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1877)
"Domingo, June 5 Fertilisation of salix repens DURING May I was watching the movements of the insects on a plant of salix repens. when I noticed some frets ..."

6. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Francis Wall Oliver, Anton Kerner von Marilaun, Marian (Balfour) Busk (1895)
"... straight, erect branches, each of which bears about 25 leaves; salix repens, on the other hand, is a low shrub with a procumbent stem and slender, ..."

7. A Contribution to Our Knowledge of Seedlings by John Lubbock (1892)
"The cotyledons of salix repens (fig. 673) are oblong-oval, petiolate, very small and show ... Stem in the early seedling stage erect, terete, salix repens, ..."

8. On the Lignite Formation of Bovey Tracey, Devonshire by William Pengelly, Oswald Heer (1863)
"salix repens, Linn.1? Fig. 7 a. Betula, nana, Linn. Fig. 7 b. salix repens, Linn.? Figs. 8 & 9, very highly magnified portion of wood. ..."

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