Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
Adoxa .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A plant of the genus Adoxa (
Adoxa moschatellina ), the flowers of which are pale green, and have a faint musky smell. It is found in woods in all parts of Europe, and is called alsohollow root andmusk crowfoot .
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- noun Adoxa moschatellina, plant of the genus
Adoxa
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Examples
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An announcement boomed out from the four loud-speakers which clustered back to back like the florets of moschatel.
Mrs. Miniver 1939
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In the Caprifoliaceae we have small and regular greenish flowers, as in the moschatel (Adoxa); more conspicuous regular open flowers without honey, as in the elder (Sambucus); and tubular flowers increasing in length and irregularity, till in some, like our common honeysuckle, they are adapted for fertilisation by moths only, with abundant honey and delicious perfume to attract them.
Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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