Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A European umbelliferous plant, Bupleurum rotundifolium, having alternate perfoliate leaves, the auricled base closing round the stem. Also called
thoroughwax . - noun A plant of the cruciferous genus Conringia, of either of the species C. Austriacum and C. orientale, having similar auriculate leaves.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) An umbelliferous plant (
Bupleurum rotundifolium ); -- so named from the shape of its leaves.
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Examples
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I jest passed Mr. Langham down to the forks, and I seed he was a-chuckin 'a hare's-ear; an' he riz
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What magnificent disks ought to come from the hare's-ear and the honeysuckle!
Bramble-Bees and Others Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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They are the shrubby hare's-ear, the honeysuckle, the prickly butcher's-broom, the box.
Bramble-Bees and Others Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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