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  • noun Plural form of larkspur.

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Examples

  •            It was a beautiful day, blues skies dappled with white cotton ball clouds, and a warm summer breeze that waltzed with lanky larkspurs.

    The Problem with Mary Maggie Lawson 2010

  • They use Ham radios and know that bluebells are also called larkspurs.

    Archive 2007-11-01 Jacqueline T Lynch 2007

  • There were flowers, too, nodding their bright erect heads to the sun: roses and sweet peas; nasturtiums, pinks, and larkspurs; peonies full blown and stained with crimson dye, or tightly curled in soft white-petaled globes.

    The Scandal of the Season Sophie Gee 2007

  • They use Ham radios and know that bluebells are also called larkspurs.

    Nancy Drew - Detective (1938) Jacqueline T Lynch 2007

  • This little river, ten steps wide, on one side has all lupins, on the other side all larkspurs.

    Erema Richard Doddridge 2004

  • Down on my hands and knees trying to get decent shots of huge larkspurs, balsamroots and yellow violets (yes, these really were yellow violets), and there, under my palms, are these tiny, tiny flashes of pink.

    grouse Diary Entry grouse 2004

  • I had my new wildflower book with me and walked along, identifying numerous colorful specimens -- blue larkspurs, Indian paintbrushes, elegant columbines in three different colors.

    Never Come Down Black, Michelle 1996

  • The main lot of perennial larkspurs are past, but by cutting them over now many flower spikes will be produced during the fall months.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881 Various

  • Get me some crown-imperials, snap-dragons, larkspurs -- something big, so that it will look like something in the glass.

    The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig Various

  • Do not get the impression that larkspurs are only blue in colour.

    The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. Ellen Eddy Shaw

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