Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of plants of the tribe Borageæ, type of the subtribe Lithospermeæ, characterized by a corolla with a cylindrical tube, a usually naked throat, and a spreading limb.
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- noun botany Any
plant of thegenus Lithospermum.
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- noun annual or perennial herbaceous or shrubby plants; cosmopolitan except Australia
Etymologies
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Examples
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SEIBERT, B. (1987) Pepper on living poles of Gliricidia septum and Erythrina lithospermum in East Kalimantan.pp. 111-118.
Chapter 8 1994
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Here and there a tall straggling plant of purple lithospermum has found a footing, and flourishes aloft its dark violet tiara of blossoms; while bright tufts of wall-flower send up their tongues of flame from an old tomb peering above the wall, as if from a funeral pyre.
Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan
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A delectable path, for example, runs up behind the cemetery, bordered by butterfly orchids and lithospermum and aristolochia and other plants worthy of better names; it winds aloft, under shady chestnuts, with views on either side.
Alone Norman Douglas 1910
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