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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A genus of plants of the family Sapindaceæ, which comprises about 30 tropical American species of climbing herbs, with alternate biternate leaves, coarsely serrate leaflets, and small white flowers. The most popular species is the balloon-vine (C. Halicacabum), a rapid-growing, easily cultivated tender annual, curious for its inflated seed-vessels. See
balloon-vine (cut), Indian-heart, and heartseed.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A genus of tendril-climbing herbs or shrubs whose seeds have a white heart-shaped spot.
WordNet 3.0
- n. tendril-climbing herbs or shrubs whose seeds have a white heart-shaped spot
Examples
“The gas enclosed in the capsules of the Cardiospermum vesicarium appeared to me to contain the same proportion of oxygen as the atmosphere, while that contained between the knots, in the hollow of the stalk, is generally less pure, containing only from 0.12 to 0.15 of oxygen.”
“Cardiospermum vesicarium appeared to me to contain the same proportion of oxygen as the atmosphere, while that contained between the knots, in the hollow of the stalk, is generally less pure, containing only from 0.12 to 0.15 of oxygen.”
““Cardiospermum Halicacabum Temporis” by Fujita Masaya SF Magazine May 2008”
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Panvocalic Plants
List of formal or informal plant names that are panvocalic - that is the name contains all the vowels at least once +/- one or more wyes (y). I start the listing with the lovely white forsythia, ab...
abeliophyllum, Aconceveibum, Euphorbiacea, Euphorbia, Achrouteria, Achaenipodium, Acanthotreculia, Abeliophyllum, Acrocoelium, Acropterygium, Actinoschoenus, Actinospermum and 652 more...
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Panvocalic organisms
Scientific names for organisms that contain all the vowels once (which makes them supervocalic as well). Many of these were originally listed on Panvocalic Proper. See also hernesheir's Panvocalic ...
Centaurion, Seymouria, Veronicastrum, Belocaulis, Macroxyletinus, Brachypolemius, Fulgoridae, Phreatoicus, Colubrinae, Upogebia, Urinatores, Subcoccinella and 859 more...
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