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Definition of Sarracenia
1. Noun. Pitcher plants.
Generic synonyms: Dicot Genus, Magnoliopsid Genus
Group relationships: Family Sarraceniaceae, Pitcher-plant Family, Sarraceniaceae
Member holonyms: Common Pitcher Plant, Huntsman's Cup, Huntsman's Cups, Sarracenia Purpurea, Hooded Pitcher Plant, Sarracenia Minor, Huntsman's Horn, Huntsman's Horns, Sarracenia Flava, Trumpets, Yellow Pitcher Plant, Yellow Trumpet
Definition of Sarracenia
1. n. A genus of American perennial herbs growing in bogs; the American pitcher plant.
Definition of Sarracenia
1. Noun. Any of various pitcher plants of genus ''Sarracenia'' ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sarracenia
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Medical Definition of Sarracenia
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Sarracenia
Literary usage of Sarracenia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly edited by William Braithwaite, James Braithwaite, Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan (1863)
"Dublin Quarterly Journal, Feb. 1803, p. 61. 3.—ON sarracenia PURPUREA. ...
Here, then, is the starting-point of the sarracenia, after its long and silent ..."
2. Gray's Botanical Text-book by Asa Gray, George Lincoln Goodale (1885)
"sarracenia. All of the eight species of this genus have hollowed ... Pitcher-leaves
of sarracenia purpurea; one of them with the upper part cut away. Fio. ..."
3. The Retrospect of Medicine by James Braithwaite, William Braithwaite (1863)
"[As the sarracenia Purpurea, or American pitcher plant, may now be obtained in
any quantity in London, it is to be hoped that all practitioners who have the ..."
4. The Retrospect of Medicine by James Braithwaite, William Braithwaite (1864)
"In one of the small-pox wards under Dr. Haldane's charge, the sarracenia purpurea in
... The sarracenia purpurea was found absolutely inert; it produced no ..."
5. A Manual of the Medical Botany of North America by Laurence Johnson (1884)
"sarracenia.—PITCHER-PLANT. Character of the Genus.—Sepals 5, with 3 bractlets
... sarracenia purpurea Linne-.—Pitcher-Plant, Sidesaddle Flower. Description. ..."
6. Materia Medica and Special Therapeutics of the New Remedies by Edwin Moses Hale (1880)
"In one of the smallpox wards, under Dr. Haldane's charge, the sarracenia purpurea,
... The sarracenia purpurea was found absolutely inert; it produced no ..."
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