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Definition of Tassel flower
1. Noun. Tropical Asiatic annual cultivated for its small tassel-shaped heads of scarlet flowers.
Group relationships: Emilia, Genus Emilia
Generic synonyms: Herb, Herbaceous Plant
2. Noun. Tropical African annual having scarlet tassel-shaped flower heads; sometimes placed in genus Cacalia.
Group relationships: Emilia, Genus Emilia
Generic synonyms: Herb, Herbaceous Plant
3. Noun. Young leaves widely used as leaf vegetables; seeds used as cereal.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tassel Flower
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Literary usage of Tassel flower
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Our Garden Flowers: A Popular Study of Their Native Lands, Their Life by Harriet Louise Keeler (1910)
"This little flower has long been in cultivation, but there are so many better
summer bloomers that it is rarely seen. The tassel flower. ..."
2. The American Botanist edited by Willard Nelson Clute (1921)
"In addition to the general name, P. candidum is known as "white tassel flower"
... "red tassel flower" the "tassel", be it known alluding to the elongated ..."
3. Plant Names, Scientific and Popular, Including in the Case of Each Plant the by Albert Brown Lyons (1900)
"Kze. is White Prairie Clover or Tassel-flower; (b) K. purpurea (Vent.) MacM.
is Violet Prairie Clover, Red Tassel-flower, Red Thimble weed. 1119. ..."
4. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"Blaze, sir, that coat. B. Jonson, Staple of News, iv. 1. tassel-flower (tas'l-flou'èr),
M. 1. An annual composite garden flower, Emilia sagittata (Ca- calin ..."
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