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Definition of Triglochin
1. Noun. Perennial or annual bog or marsh plants; includes arrow grass.
Generic synonyms: Liliopsid Genus, Monocot Genus
Group relationships: Arrow-grass Family, Family Juncaginaceae, Family Scheuchzeriaceae, Juncaginaceae, Scheuchzeriaceae
Member holonyms: Arrow Grass, Triglochin Maritima
Lexicographical Neighbors of Triglochin
Literary usage of Triglochin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Botany; Or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with Their Essential by James Edward Smith, James Sowerby (1807)
"triglochin palustre. Linn. Sp. Pl . 482. Huds. Fl. An. 152. With. Bot. Arr. 3?8.
... JL HIS species of triglochin is full as common in wet boggy meadows, ..."
2. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"triglochin palustris L. Sp. PI. 338. 1753. Rootstock short, oblique, with slender
... triglochin maritima L. Sp. PI. 339. 1753- triglochin data Nutt. ..."
3. A Sketch of the Botany of South-Carolina and Georgia by Stephen Elliott (1821)
"I have seen 4 germs but never 2. Flowers May. Grows in ditches and stagnant
waters; at Ogeechee very common. triglochin. GEN. PL. 616. ..."