Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Agenus of gamopetalous plants, of the order Solanaceæ and tribe Salpiglossidæ.
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- noun Any of several
flowering plants of the genus Schizanthus
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- noun any plant of the genus Schizanthus having finely divided leaves and showy variegated flowers
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Examples
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White schizanthus along the edge, covered up the old forget-me-nots, and funkia lilies (subcordata) threw up their buds.
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Giant larkspurs thrust up their flower-rods, between the dentated foliage of which gaped the mouths of tawny snapdragons, while the schizanthus reared its scanty leaves and fluttering blooms, that looked like butterflies 'wings of sulphur hue splashed with soft lake.
La faute de l'Abbe Mouret ��mile Zola 1871
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You can use spring-flowering bulbs to give the vertical spires in the tabletop garden, and surround these with lower undulating hummocks of all the best spring bedding - violas, polyanthus, bellis, schizanthus.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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