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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A plant of the genus Dicentra, which includes Dutchman's breeches and certain bleeding hearts.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The spectabalis may go dormant in the heat of summer, although some dicentra will hold their foliage.
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This HUGE bed of old-fashioned bleeding hearts (dicentra spectabalis) must have popped up overnight – the bed isabout7 feet long by3 feet wide.
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This HUGE bed of old-fashioned bleeding hearts (dicentra spectabalis) must have popped up overnight – the bed isabout7 feet long by3 feet wide.
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Does anyone besides me wonder if dicentra acquired his conspicuous humility by not finishing his dissertation?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Paul Hollander on the Fall of Communism 2009
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But thanks for the willful misreading of my intent (without asking for clarification), for accusing me of nativism, and of assuming that I use the category “real Americans” in the “No True Scotsman” vein.dicentra(Quote)
The Volokh Conspiracy » Paul Hollander on the Fall of Communism 2009
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I did not realise that dicentra formosa would bloom for such a long period.
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The dicentra normally has one or two blooms sporadically all season, this is highly unusual.
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Does anyone besides me wonder if dicentra acquired his conspicuous humility by not finishing his dissertation?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Paul Hollander on the Fall of Communism 2009
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I think the dicentra likes the cold, we can hardly grow spectabilis.
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The latter strikes me as more fruitful given the proportion of the population that has passed through said institutions over the past forty years and have noted the reality that dicentra highlights, though many were more sympathetic to it at the time than dicentra.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Paul Hollander on the Fall of Communism 2009
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