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- proper noun A taxonomic
genus within thefamily Orobanchaceae — a genus ofcow-wheats .
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Examples
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Vulgaris (yellow loose strife), Melampyrum Pratense (yellow-cow wheat),
Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter James Conway Walter
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_Melampyrum arvense_, which occurs only in one spot S. of Ashwell;
Hertfordshire Herbert Winckworth Tompkins 1901
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Melampyrum, Pedicularis, etc., mostly adapted to be fertilised by bees.
Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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Inftances of remarkable brakes may "be ob - ferved in & me~tree t Melampyrum, Moth;
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