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Definition of Tephrosia
1. Noun. Genus of tropical and subtropical herbs or shrubs: hoary peas.
Generic synonyms: Rosid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Papilionoideae, Subfamily Papilionoideae
Member holonyms: Hoary Pea
Definition of Tephrosia
1. n. A genus of leguminous shrubby plants and herbs, mostly found in tropical countries, a few herbaceous species being North American. The foliage is often ashy-pubescent, whence the name.
Definition of Tephrosia
1. Noun. (botany) Any of the genus ''Tephrosia'' of leguminous shrubby plants and herbs. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Tephrosia
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Tephrosia
Literary usage of Tephrosia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation by James William Tutt (1890)
"The tephrosia Tangle. ... my eye in turning over the pages of Borkhausen, synonymic
intricacies of the " tephrosia question," through certain the accredited ..."
2. A Manual of organic materia medica by John Michael Maisch (1890)
"tephrosia leaflet. It should be free from stalks and legumes, ... have occasionally
been mixed with senna; also the emarginate leaflets of tephrosia ..."
3. The Entomologist; an Illustrated Journal of General Entomology by Edward Newman, Royal Entomological Society of London (1907)
"... F. ; and there were specimens on each boundary line about which he found it
difficult to decide.—Mr. H. Langley showed dark specimens of tephrosia ..."
4. Experimental zoology by Thomas Hunt Morgan (1907)
"The explanation of the transference to the male of the female character is not
apparent. Experiments -with tephrosia A series of hybridizing experiments ..."
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