Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various parasitic herbs of the genus Orobanche, having purplish or yellowish flowers and small scalelike leaves that lack chlorophyll. Broomrape grows on the roots of various plants.
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- noun Any of various
plants , of the genus Orobanche, that areparasitic on theroots of other plants
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The lack of chlorophyll made me wonder if it was some kind of broomrape just emerging, but it didn't really look right … so I snapped a picture of it and went on.
Heraclitean Fire 2010
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The lack of chlorophyll made me wonder if it was some kind of broomrape just emerging, but it didn't really look right … so I snapped a picture of it and went on.
Heraclitean Fire 2010
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Localized species of note include red broomrape Orobanche alba, sea spleenwort Asplenium marinum and oyster plant Mertemsia maritima.
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Brown stalks of broomrape were still standing, and I lighted upon a lingering bee-ophrys, a plant which by its amazing mimicry makes one look at it with awe as if it were something supernatural.
Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine Edward Harrison Barker 1885
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(The Broom-rape Tribe.) Orobanche uniflora, L. Squaw-root; cancer-root; broomrape.
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From that underground relationship, the one-flowered broomrape boasts a dainty yellow and purple trumpet-shaped flower.
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Hence, you will often find stonecrop and broomrape growing in the same habitat.
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Great & Most used Chinese diet to boost your immune system includes chicken soup tonic that contains deng shen, sliced ginger & broomrape sliced ginger.
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Orobanche uniflora, or naked broomrape (or one-flowered broomrape or one-flowered cancer-root), is distributed throughout much of North America north of Mexico with the exception of Manitoba, Labrador, and Canada's central northern territories (the species is also found in Baja California).
Museum Blogs 2009
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Orobanche uniflora, or naked broomrape (or one-flowered broomrape or one-flowered cancer-root), is distributed throughout much of North America north of Mexico with the exception of Manitoba, Labrador, and Canada's central northern territories (the species is also found in Baja California).
Museum Blogs 2009
madmouth commented on the word broomrape
a lovely purple flower. someone point me to the "Better than they sound" list; I can't find it.
June 8, 2009
reesetee commented on the word broomrape
Right here, madmouth. But never fear--bilby has posted it on your behalf. :-)
June 8, 2009
jeffrey.t.whitney commented on the word broomrape
a large genus of parasitic herbs (orobanche), which attach themselves to the roots of broom, furze, clover, and other leguminous plants, having a brownish-yellow leafless fleshy stem furnished with pointed scales or bracts. the name was first applied to o. major, the rapum genistæ of lobel and other early herbalists
June 10, 2009