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Definition of Salpichroa
1. Noun. Herbs of temperate North and South America: cock's eggs.
Generic synonyms: Asterid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Family Solanaceae, Potato Family, Solanaceae
Member holonyms: Cock's Eggs, Salpichroa Organifolia, Salpichroa Rhomboidea
Lexicographical Neighbors of Salpichroa
Literary usage of Salpichroa
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The London Journal of Botany by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1845)
"salpichroa. Under this name it is proposed to class several plants that have been
hitherto arranged in Atropa, the limits of which genus remained for a long ..."
2. My Garden by Eden Phillpotts (1906)
"salpichroa rhomboidea had to go. He did in one season an amount of ... I shall
throw him out 1 salpichroa. By the way, the Supplement of Professor ..."
3. Illustrations of South American Plants by John Miers (1850)
"salpichroa. Under this name it is proposed to class several plants that have been
hitherto arranged in Atropa, the limits of which genus remained for a long ..."
4. Synoptical Flora of North America by Asa Gray (1878)
"S. Texas to Arizona, indigenous. S. Florida, doubtless introduced. (Trop. Amer,
and other tropical regions.) 4. salpichroa, Miers. ..."