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Definition of Spartium
1. Noun. One species: Spanish broom.
Generic synonyms: Rosid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Papilionoideae, Subfamily Papilionoideae
Member holonyms: Spanish Broom, Spartium Junceum, Weaver's Broom
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spartium
Literary usage of Spartium
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sylva Florifera: The Shrubbery Historically and Botanically Treated: with by Henry Phillips (1823)
"The Latins called it genista, and their great natural historian (Pliny) says that
he was not able to ascertain whether genista was the same as spartium or ..."
2. Trees and Shrubs: An Abridgment of the Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum by John Claudius Loudon (1875)
"719.; spartium patens Lin. L. ' FL 1 u> , 2. p. ... S3., but not of Car.; spartium
... 241.; Dec. Prod, 2. p. 154.; Don's Mill., 2. p. IBS. L spartium ..."
3. Allen's Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Modes of by Alfred Henry Allen (1917)
"Sparteine and other spartium Alkaloids (Vol. VI, pp. 232-235).— During the past
few years considerable work has been done in attempts to elucidate the exact ..."
4. On Buds and Stipules by John Lubbock (1899)
"124.—Part uf same shoot, to show the Imtl protected by the pedestal of the fallen
leaf; nat. size*. /A bud; /*, persistent pedestal of leal. In spartium ..."