Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of various chiefly eastern Asian perennial herbs of the genus Astilbe, having compound basal leaves and showy panicles of tiny colorful flowers. Also called spirea.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A genus of perennial plants, belonging to the family Saxifragaceæ. There are some 7 or 8 species in Asia and North America. A. Japoniva, with large, conical or pyramidal, terminal clusters of many small, white flowers, is much used for forcing, particularly for early spring bloom. These plants may also be grown in the open. This genus is often confounded with the rosaceous genus Aruncus. The genera Aruncus and Spiræa are characterized by having many stamens and usually several or many pistils; Astilbe has 8 or 10 stamens and a single 2–3-lobed pistil. Astilbe Lemoinei is said to be a hybrid between Astilbe Japoniva and Aruncus astilboides.
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- n. any plant of the genus Astilbe having compound leaves and showy panicles of tiny colorful flowers
Etymologies
- New Latin astilbē : a-1 + Greek stilbos, glittering. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“This involved finding and placing an ornamental iron table and chairs, a stone bench, some hooks for hanging tools, a rhododendron, several azaleas, perennials such as astilbe and liriope, and a few bags of hardwood bark mulch.”
The Washington Post: Small urban gardens can be designed with a large-yard feel
“Look for white-flowered selections of perennials, such as astilbe, and annuals, such as impatiens, browallia, torenia and begonias.”
“Pepper the arrangement with delicate elements such at dainty columbine flowers, oregano sprigs and wispy astilbe.”
“I did end up with the tall astilbe, did not cut the flower stalk off and made it through two flights, security and the drive home still intact.”
“Veronicastrum virginicum, new to the garden last year joins white astilbe and bronze fennel among others in the yellow/white bed.”
“My favorite method is to dig a bucket-sized hole, 12 inches in diameter, nine inches deep, among perennials, hosta, astilbe or daylilies that send up their foliage after the bulbs have bloomed.”
“Not wanting to mow a bumpy hillside, I dug up the grass and weeds and added a variety of shade-loving groundcovers -- hosta, astilbe and vinca.”
“We also have the butterfly weed, muhly and japanese blood grass, astilbe, ajuga and the Crimson Queen maple.”
The Six Degrees Of Favorite Plants-SL Blogathon « Fairegarden
“Loved this post, Frances, curious to see what you would choose You have several favorites in my garden ~ Japanese Painted ferns, astilbe, and exbury azalias for a starter!”
The Six Degrees Of Favorite Plants-SL Blogathon « Fairegarden
“We shall see how the drumsticks pan out and there is still the pink and white astilbe behind the muhly just beginning to send up spikes.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘astilbe’.
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Russian Doll Words
A Russian Doll word is a word that, when you remove the first and last letters, is either the empty string, or a Russian Doll word. These are all of the 6 or more letter Russian Doll words found in...
waspiness, upraisers, strainers, sporangia, raspiness, prelatess, methanals, gaspiness, washings, uprisers, upraises, upraiser and 2373 more...
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Flora
fenugreek, verbena, saxifrage, arbutus, calendula, nasturtium, lobelia, hellebore, rhododendron, philodendron, bellflower, heuchera and 449 more...
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...:::bella:::...
originally started as an attempt to collect words I found visually and auditorially beautiful, as well as psychically evocative, this has become nothing more than a grab bag of word curiosities, a ...
bergamot, jambalaya, bee's knees, heliotrope, hosanna, gamboge, aureole, filial, madrigal, multilingual, sacrosanct, sojourn and 1072 more...
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Flora and Fauna
poa annua, pooka, vole, bestiary, popple, turgor, starling, sharpy, copse, coreopsis, clove, corvid and 351 more...
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The Garden on Ryons Street
I spent a few seasons doing gardening work for a former English professor. This is just a list of some of the friends I made in her garden. (Some of these plants spent the winter inside, of course.)
filipendula, Tradescantia, eglantine, Ispahan, Comtesse de Murinais, Crested Moss, rugosa rose, goutweed, creeping charlie, buttercup, lilac, cedar and 97 more...
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The word collector
My collection of words that are intriguing, but don't fit my other lists.
snailery, aplasia, postulant, aigrette, caravel, frigate, capeskin, suffusion, schist, varlet, sepulchral, anisotropy and 320 more...
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free rice
trepang, wain, stenosis, biltong, ablaut, ostler, gorgerin, qindar, hyson, gynoecium, traduce, blenny and 49 more...
Tweets
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