Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of cruciferous plants having narrow entire leaves and yellow or orange flowers.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a large genus of annual or perennial herbs of the Old World and North America; some are grown for their flowers and some for their attractive evergreen leaves.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun large genus of annual or perennial herbs some grown for their flowers and some for their attractive evergreen leaves; Old World and North America
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Examples
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Also in bloom or bud shown below are, from left to right, annual dianthus, Sheffield Pink mum, chaenomeles (flowering quince), white phlox subulata, erysimum (wallflower) and the yellow button mum.
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One of the favorite pots planted with lithodora, wallflower, erysimum cheiri, and bellis perennis.
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