Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of Compositæ, nearly related to Solidago, containing over 30 species, natives of western North America.

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Examples

  • All the purlieus of bigelovia and artemisia are noisy with them for a month.

    The Land of Little Rain 1903

  • From midsummer until frost the prevailing note of the field is clear gold, passing into the rusty tone of bigelovia going into a decline, a succession of color schemes more admirably managed than the transformation scene at the theatre.

    The Land of Little Rain 1903

  • The white butterfly crop comes on with the bigelovia bloom, and on warm mornings makes an airy twinkling all across the field.

    The Land of Little Rain 1903

  • All the purlieus of bigelovia and artemisia are noisy with them for a month.

    The Land of Little Rain Mary Hunter Austin 1901

  • From midsummer until frost the prevailing note of the field is clear gold, passing into the rusty tone of bigelovia going into a decline,

    The Land of Little Rain Mary Hunter Austin 1901

  • The white butterfly crop comes on with the bigelovia bloom, and on warm mornings makes an airy twinkling all across the field.

    The Land of Little Rain Mary Hunter Austin 1901

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