Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several plants of the genus Trollius in the buttercup family, having palmately lobed leaves and solitary, usually yellow flowers.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The Trollius Europæus, a ranunculaceous plant of Great Britain and the mountains of central Europe, with deeply lobed leaves and pale-yellow flowers.
- noun The globe-amaranth, Gomphrena globosa.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A plant of the genus Trollius (
T. Europæus ), found in the mountainous parts of Europe, and producing handsome globe-shaped flowers. - noun The American plant
Trollius laxus . - noun See
Corchorus .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Trollius europaeus, a plant with globe-shaped flowers.
- noun Trollius laxus, a similar American plant.
- noun More generally, any plant of the genus Trollius.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of several plants of the genus Trollius having globose yellow flowers
- noun any of several plants of the genus Trollius having globose yellow flowers
Etymologies
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Examples
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The globeflower is of rather a pale yellow, and its petals curl in so that it looks like
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 2 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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Loriot S, Gaudeul M (2002) Geographic pattern of genetic variation in the European globeflower
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The correlative field study carried out shows that the severity of damage caused by Chiastocheta larvae to globeflower fruit carpels is linked to the accumulation in the carpel walls of a C-glycosyl-flavone, adonivernith, which reduces the larval seed predation ability per damaged carpel.
BioMed Central - Latest articles Sebastien Ibanez 2009
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Endangered bog turtles make their home in the valley, as do rare plants including spreading globeflower, a member of the buttercup family, and grass-of-Parnassus.
The Nature Conservancy Randall Edwards 2008
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Rare plants in the valley include spreading globeflower, a member of the buttercup family, and grass-of-Parnassus.
knitandpurl commented on the word globeflower
"I sipped my tea and looked at the strangely random garden with its funny mix of yellow globeflowers and pink azaleas and tall, green nandins."
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami, translated by Jay Rubin, p 285
September 9, 2010
knitandpurl commented on the word globeflower
Wikipedia says: "The Globe-flower (Trollius europaeus) is a perennial plant of the family Ranunculaceae.
It grows up to 60 cm high with a bright yellow, globe-shaped flower up to 3 cm across."
September 9, 2010