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Definition of Silversword

1. Noun. Low-growing plant found only in volcanic craters on Hawaii having rosettes of narrow pointed silver-green leaves and clusters of profuse red-purple flowers on a tall stem.

Definition of Silversword

1. Noun. Any member of the genus ''Argyroxiphium'' of flowering plants native to Hawaii, with long, narrow leaves sometimes covered in silvery hairs. ¹

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Silversword

Literary usage of Silversword

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

1. The Indigenous Trees of the Hawaiian Islands by Joseph Francis Charles Rock (1913)
"... that the silversword, Argyroxiphium sandwicense, is found as low down as 7000 feet elevation on Mauna Loa. The vegetation from the volcano until one ..."

2. The Indigenous Trees of the Hawaiian Islands by Joseph Francis Charles Rock (1913)
"... that the silversword, Argyroxiphium sandwicense, is found as low down as 7000 feet elevation on Mauna Loa. The vegetation from the volcano until one ..."

3. Pamphlets on Forestry in Hawaii (1919)
"The vegetation is mainly composed of a species of silversword which abounds by the thousands, lobelias, geraniums, violets, scaevola, rushes and grasses, ..."

4. Natural History of Hawaii: Being an Account of the Hawaiian People, the by William Alanson Bryan (1915)
"In Hawaii the gathering of a silversword corresponds with the gathering of the edelweiss in the Alps, and furnishes the adventurous climber ..."

5. Natural History of Hawaii: Being an Account of the Hawaiian People, the by William Alanson Bryan (1915)
"In Hawaii the gathering of a silversword corresponds with the gathering of the edelweiss in the Alps, and furnishes the adventurous climber a prize well ..."

6. Report of the Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry of the by Hawaii (1911)
"Though several plants are peculiar to Puu Kukui as a violet, lobelia, and several others, I was greatly surprised in finding the silversword, or Ahinahina ..."

7. The Indigenous Trees of the Hawaiian Islands by Joseph Francis Charles Rock (1913)
"... that the silversword, Argyroxiphium sandwicense, is found as low down as 7000 feet elevation on Mauna Loa. The vegetation from the volcano until one ..."

8. The Indigenous Trees of the Hawaiian Islands by Joseph Francis Charles Rock (1913)
"... that the silversword, Argyroxiphium sandwicense, is found as low down as 7000 feet elevation on Mauna Loa. The vegetation from the volcano until one ..."

9. Pamphlets on Forestry in Hawaii (1919)
"The vegetation is mainly composed of a species of silversword which abounds by the thousands, lobelias, geraniums, violets, scaevola, rushes and grasses, ..."

10. Natural History of Hawaii: Being an Account of the Hawaiian People, the by William Alanson Bryan (1915)
"In Hawaii the gathering of a silversword corresponds with the gathering of the edelweiss in the Alps, and furnishes the adventurous climber ..."

11. Natural History of Hawaii: Being an Account of the Hawaiian People, the by William Alanson Bryan (1915)
"In Hawaii the gathering of a silversword corresponds with the gathering of the edelweiss in the Alps, and furnishes the adventurous climber a prize well ..."

12. Report of the Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry of the by Hawaii (1911)
"Though several plants are peculiar to Puu Kukui as a violet, lobelia, and several others, I was greatly surprised in finding the silversword, or Ahinahina ..."

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