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Definition of Thermopsis
1. Noun. Genus of American and Asiatic showy rhizomatous herbs: bush peas.
Generic synonyms: Rosid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Papilionoideae, Subfamily Papilionoideae
Member holonyms: Bush Pea
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thermopsis
Literary usage of Thermopsis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Ladies' Flower-garden of Ornamental Perennials by Loudon (Jane) (1843)
"The name of thermopsis, indeed, indicates this latter resemblance, as it is from
two Greek ... thermopsis RHOMBIFOLIA, Nntt. THE RHOMBOID-LEAVED thermopsis. ..."
2. Handbook of Hardy Herbaceous & Alpine Flowers by William Sutherland (1871)
"Native of Siberia. The flowers precede those of the Foxtail S. by about a month.
thermopsis.—This is a small genus of handsome and interesting plants ..."
3. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"thermopsis R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. Ed. 2, 3: 3. 1811. ... Alleghany thermopsis.
Fig. 2451. Podalyria mollis Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. I : 264. 1803. ..."