Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of leguminous trees or shrubs, all Asiatic and chiefly Siberian, with feathery pale-green foliage and yellow flowers appearing in early spring. The species are all ornamental, and several are in cultivation.
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- noun any plant of the genus Caragana having even-pinnate leaves and mostly yellow flowers followed by seeds in a linear pod
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Examples
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I spied a pair of robins this afternoon amongst the caragana bushes.
Merry First Day of Spring! Gumbo Lily 2010
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I spied a pair of robins this afternoon amongst the caragana bushes.
Archive 2010-03-01 Gumbo Lily 2010
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Your weekend was much better than mine; we spent Saturday cutting caragana bushes, and Sunday recuperating.
Ecstacy: we go to stamp exchange (Postcards) & go to see squirrel friends Elizabeth McClung 2009
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I also spent some time pruning the caragana bushes that grow in my backyard near the clothesline.
Pruning Gumbo Lily 2007
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I also spent some time pruning the caragana bushes that grow in my backyard near the clothesline.
Archive 2007-07-01 Gumbo Lily 2007
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She could smell the pungent blossoms of the town's caragana hedges, for sure.
The Doctor's Daughter Bowen, Judith 1999
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_ -- The small shrubby caragana (Caragana pygmaea) was unusually fine this spring when in full bloom.
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