Definitions
Sorry, no definitions found. You may find more data at exacum.
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word Exacum.
Examples
-
In Exacum and in Saintpaulia the flowers are dimorphic in this sense: the style projects to either the right or the left side of the corolla, from which it follows that a right-handed flower would fertilise a left-handed one, and vice versa.
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845
-
Potentilla _tormentilla_ (indicating that the plant is that which was formerly known by the latter name), Exacum _Candollii_ (from the fact that
A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive John Stuart Mill 1839
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.