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Definition of Spiderwort
1. Noun. Any plant of the family Commelinaceae.
Generic synonyms: Herb, Herbaceous Plant
Group relationships: Commelinaceae, Family Commelinaceae, Spiderwort Family
Specialized synonyms: Paradisea Liliastrum, St.-bruno's-lily
Definition of Spiderwort
1. n. An American endogenous plant (Tradescantia Virginica), with long linear leaves and ephemeral blue flowers. The name is sometimes extended to other species of the same genus.
Definition of Spiderwort
1. Noun. A perennial plant of the ''Tradescantia'' genus, found in clumps in woodland and meadow. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Spiderwort
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Medical Definition of Spiderwort
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Spiderwort
Literary usage of Spiderwort
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"spiderwort FAMILY. Perennial or annual leafy herbs with regular or irregular
perfect and often showy flowers in cymes, commonly subtended by spathe-like or ..."
2. Flora of the Southern United States: Containing an Abridged Description of by Alvan Wentworth Chapman (1897)
"E. (spiderwort FAMILY.) Herbs, with chiefly fibrous roots, jointed and leafy
stems, and perfect or somewhat polygamous often irregular flowers. ..."
3. Elementary Botany by George Francis Atkinson (1898)
"Movement of protoplasm in cells of the staminal hair of " spiderwort."—A cell of
one of these hairs from a stamen of a tradescantia grown in glass houses is ..."
4. Manual of the Botany (Phænogamia and Pteridophyta) of the Rocky Mountain by John Merle Coulter (1885)
"(spiderwort FAMILY.) Herbs, with fibrous or sometimes thickened roots, jointed
and often branching leafy stems, and chiefly perfect and 6-androus, ..."
5. Southern Wild Flowers and Trees: Together with Shrubs, Vines and Various by Alice Lounsberry (1901)
"They are erect and rigid and about as long as the stem. Towards their summits
they become bristle-like. The petals of the flowers are blue. THE spiderwort ..."
6. A Practical Treatise on the Use of the Microscope: Including the Different by John Quekett (1855)
"Tradescantia virginica—spiderwort.—The circulation in the jointed hair of the
filament of the anther of ..."
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