Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
thio-urea .
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Examples
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"That rosa sulphurea is a haughty high-bred beauty, that disdains even to show herself beautiful, unless she is pleased – I love better what comes nearer home to the charities and wants of every-day life."
Queechy 1854
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Those found within Mt. Robson park include low sandwort Atenaria longipedinculata, slender Indian paintbrush Castilleja gracillima, western Indian paintbrush C. occidentalis, sulphur indian paintbrush C. sulphurea and arctic cinquefoil Potentilla hyparctica.
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Some 72 species of birds have been recorded, including yellow-crested cockatoo Cacatua sulphurea (V), noisy friar bird Philemon buceroides and common scrubhen Megapodius freycinet.
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Petrosimonia birandii: This species grows in the muddy sandy soils close to the lake and may form associations with any of the following: Petrosimonia triandra, Salsola anatolica, Halocharis sulphurea, Salicornia herbacea, Kochia prostrata, Suaeda prostarta, Triplospermum praecox, Stipa hohenackeriana, S. lagascae, and Haplophyllum graveolens.
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Est in horum montium radicibus materia vri aptissima, nempe sulphurea & bituminosa.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Est in horum montium radicibus materia vri aptissima, nempe sulphurea & bituminosa.
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A year ago I sowed seed by the ounce each of A. alpina and of A. sulphurea, but as yet not a single plantlet has rewarded me for my trouble.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884 Various
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The same treatment will answer for this species as for _A. sulphurea_.
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From Austria, the foliage closely resembling that of _A. sulphurea_, but the flowers are larger and of various colours.
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It is when we come to the aristocratic Alpine forms, to A. alpina, A. sulphurea, A. narcissiflora, etc., that difficulties alike of propagation and of culture test our skill to the uttermost.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884 Various
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