Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
balsamine . - noun A name in Guam and the Philippine Islands of Momordica Charantia and Momordica Balsamina. See
amargosa andbalsam-pear .
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Examples
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The hands, which as well as the feet are small, have the finger nails dyed with the juice of the flowers of the balsamina, and are protected in the open air by mittens.
Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia John Milton Mackie
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The garden balsam is an annual plant, _Impatiens balsamina_, and the balsam apple is the fruit of _Momordica balsamina_, nat. order Cucurbitaceae.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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Characteristic herbs are the sweet-scented Viola patrinii, the slender milkwort; Polygala Abyssinica, a handsome pea, Vigna vexillata, a borage, Trichodesma Indicum, a balsam, Impatiens balsamina, familiar in English gardens, the beautiful delicate little blue
The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir James McCrone Douie 1894
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Momordica balsamina, M. charanta, Citrullus Colocynthis
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891
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-- The first variety, _M. balsamina_, more common than the second, is a vine with angular stem and simple tendrils.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891
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Impatiens balsamina FIMBRIATA (Imp-FIM, accession number AF047392).
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