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Definition of Thalictrum
1. Noun. Widely distributed genus of perennial herbs: meadow rue.
Generic synonyms: Magnoliid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Buttercup Family, Crowfoot Family, Family Ranunculaceae, Ranunculaceae
Member holonyms: Meadow Rue
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thalictrum
Literary usage of Thalictrum
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Phytologist: A Popular Botanical Miscellany edited by George Luxford, Edward Newman (1849)
"I gathered a thalictrum there in September last, which may possibly be the one
... The inflorescence is remarkably different from that of thalictrum minus. ..."
2. Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse by Edward Step (1896)
"Genus thalictrum thalictrum .(the classical name), a genus of about fifty species,
widely distributed in the temperate and colder regions of the Northern ..."
3. The Gardeners Dictionaryby Philip Miller by Philip Miller (1754)
"CBP The narrow- eft-leav'd Meadow-rue. I J. thalictrum minus a/drum ... С. В. P.
The lead and moil (linking Meadow-rue. 17. thalictrum ..."