Definition of Samolus

1. Noun. Genus of herbs usually growing in salt marshes: water pimpernels.

Exact synonyms: Genus Samolus
Generic synonyms: Dicot Genus, Magnoliopsid Genus
Group relationships: Family Primulaceae, Primrose Family, Primulaceae
Member holonyms: Water Pimpernel

Lexicographical Neighbors of Samolus

Sammarinese
Sammarineses
Sammi
Sammie
Sammy
Samnite
Samnium
Samoa
Samoa i Sisifo
Samoan
Samoan Islands
Samoans
Samogitia
Samogitian
Samogitians
Samolus
Samolus floribundus
Samolus parviflorus
Samolus valerandii
Samos
Samosata
Samothracian
Samothracians
Samoyed
Samoyede
Samoyedes
Samoyedic
Samoyedic-speaking
Sampson
Sams

Literary usage of Samolus

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

1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1850)
"They also ascribed great virtues to the samolus, which was called ... All that can be known respecting the Selago and samolus, may be seen in ..."

2. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"Type species: samolus Valerandi L. i. samolus floribundus HBK Water Pimpernel. ... samolus Valerandi L., of Europe and Asia, a smaller plant with mostly ..."

3. English Botany; Or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with Their Essential by Sir James Edward Smith, James Sowerby (1803)
"samolus Valerandi. Lmn. Sp. PI. 243. Sm. Fl. Brit. 259. ... The samolus has little affinity to its neighbouring genera in the 5th ..."

4. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1897)
"samolus L. Sp. PI. 171. 1753. Perennial glabrous herbs, with alternate entire ... samolus Valerandi L., of Europe and Asia, a smaller plant lith mostly ..."

5. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1897)
"samolus L. Sp. PI. 171. 1753. Perennial glabrous herbs, with alternate entire ... samolus Valerandi L., of Europe and Asia, a smaller plant with mostly ..."

6. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1850)
"They also ascribed great virtues to the samolus, which was called ... All that can be known respecting the Selago and samolus, may be seen in ..."

7. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"Type species: samolus Valerandi L. i. samolus floribundus HBK Water Pimpernel. ... samolus Valerandi L., of Europe and Asia, a smaller plant with mostly ..."

8. English Botany; Or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with Their Essential by Sir James Edward Smith, James Sowerby (1803)
"samolus Valerandi. Lmn. Sp. PI. 243. Sm. Fl. Brit. 259. ... The samolus has little affinity to its neighbouring genera in the 5th ..."

9. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1897)
"samolus L. Sp. PI. 171. 1753. Perennial glabrous herbs, with alternate entire ... samolus Valerandi L., of Europe and Asia, a smaller plant lith mostly ..."

10. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1897)
"samolus L. Sp. PI. 171. 1753. Perennial glabrous herbs, with alternate entire ... samolus Valerandi L., of Europe and Asia, a smaller plant with mostly ..."

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