Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any one of a small group of plants forming the section Retama (sometimes considered a genus—Boissier, 1839), in the genus Genista.
- noun In Spanish America, a name applied to several leguminous plants more or less closely resembling plants of the genera Spartium, Genista, and Cytisus: in Porto Rico, Cassia biflora and C. portoricensis; in southern Mexico, Cassia tomentosa; in northern Mexico, Parkinsonia aculeata and Cercidium texanum.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun small genus of Mediterranean shrubs; often included in genus Genista
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word retama.
Examples
-
In the midst of this plain are tufts of the retama, which is the Spartium nubigenum of Aiton.
-
In the midst of this plain are tufts of the retama, which is the Spartium nubigenum of Aiton.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
-
The yellow trumpet flower is known to campesinos as retama, jamoncillos, jarilla or esperanza.
-
The yellow trumpet flower is known to campesinos as retama, jamoncillos, jarilla or esperanza.
-
Now retama, a hardy bitter shrub, grows in these plains of pumice; the flats of it are pumice and rapilli, white and brown.
A Tramp's Notebook Morley Roberts 1899
-
The peak, clear in the blue sky, rose up bare and majestic 5000 feet out of as desolate a desert clothed with the stiff retama shrubs
Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 Leonard Huxley 1896
-
The fourth and fifth zones, the regions of the retama and the gramina, occupy heights equal to the most inaccessible summits of the Pyrenees.
-
Guanches, exhibits five zones of plants, which we may distinguish by the names — region of vines, region of laurels, region of pines, region of the retama, and region of grasses.
-
Piton, is as high as Etna, and of very little extent; while the lowermost, covered with tufts of retama, reaches as far as the Estancia de los
-
Our guides made a large fire with the dry branches of retama.
yarb commented on the word retama
A big bush of retama, Spanish broom, beside the steps caught the late afternoon sun...
- Jon Cleary, Mask of the Andes.
May 12, 2008