Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name of the showy South African portulacaceous plants of the genus Anacampseros, common in cultivation.
- noun The Victorian blue creeper, Comesperma volubile, an evergreen twining plant of Australia.
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Examples
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Perhaps in the lands of fogs and fires, grey skies and east winds, but not in Egypt, where the sun, sky, winds, and memories serve rather to force the growth of the love-plant and hasten the budding of the passion-flower.
Desert Love Joan Conquest
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I recognized the sanctity that invested the name in Spratling's eyes, and he knew that woman alone may enter the gate-way to that garden of the affections in which the sensitive love-plant blossoms and bears most delicious fruit.
Fagots from the campfire, Louis J Dupre 1881
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Shall I turn into merchandise the red strawberry, the pale green pea, the high-flavored raspberry, the sanguinary beet, that love-plant the tomato, and the corn which did not waste its sweetness on the desert air, but, after flowing in a sweet rill through all our summer life, mingled at last with the engaging bean in a pool of succotash?
The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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Shall I turn into merchandise the red strawberry, the pale green pea, the high-flavored raspberry, the sanguinary beet, that love-plant the tomato, and the corn which did not waste its sweetness on the desert air, but, after flowing in a sweet rill through all our summer life, mingled at last with the engaging bean in a pool of succotash?
My Summer in a Garden Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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