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Definition of Twinflower
1. Noun. Creeping evergreen subshrub of the northern parts of Europe and Asia with delicate fragrant tubular bell-shaped usually pink flowers borne in pairs.
Group relationships: Genus Linnaea, Linnaea
Specialized synonyms: American Twinflower, Linnaea Borealis Americana
Generic synonyms: Subshrub, Suffrutex
Definition of Twinflower
1. Noun. ''Linnaea borealis'', a woodland subshrub with opposite evergreen rounded oval leaves and pendulous pink flowers that occur in pairs. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Twinflower
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Twinflower
Literary usage of Twinflower
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1901)
"I then looked up illustrations of the European twinflower and found that the ...
Being satisfied that our American twinflower really is distinct from the ..."
2. Minnesota Plant Life by Conway MacMillan (1899)
"The twinflower, not uncommon throughout the wooded portion of the state, grows
among moss and might be mistaken for the partridgeberry. ..."
3. Reports of the Survey (1899)
"The twinflower, not uncommon throughout the wooded portion of the state, grows
among moss and might be mistaken for the partridgeberry. ..."
4. Jackanapes: Daddy Darwin's Dovecot. The Story of a Short Life by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing, Horatia K. F. Gatty (1887)
"... had caught sight of 1 Double Velvet, an old summer rose, not common now.
It is described by Parkinson. 2 Red Bergamot, or twinflower. Monarda Didyma. ..."
5. Botany for Young People and Common Schools: How Plants Grow, a Simple by Asa Gray (1880)
"... twinflower. Shrubs or woody vines. Stamens as many as the lobes of the corolla,
4 or 5. Style one, slender: stigma one. ..."
6. The Book of Easter by William Croswell Doane (1910)
"When up the full veins of the pine The saps push lustily, And blossoms star the
twinflower vine Around each mossy tree, And wandering silver sea-birds mate ..."
7. EcoRegions of Alaska by Alisa L. Gallant (1998)
"Herbaceous species, such as twinflower (Linnaea borealis) and horsetail (Equisetum
sylvaticum and E. arvense), are common. A well-developed moss layer ..."
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