Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A genus of composite plants of the subtribe Melampodieæ. The achenia are thick; the 4 or 5 exterior bracts of the involucre are herbaceous, while the inner ones surround the achenes; the leaves are opposite and entire, and the flower-heads are peduncled. There are about 20 species, natives of tropical and subtropical America.
WordNet 3.0
- n. herbs and subshrubs of warm North America
Examples
“This is the regular shot of a dark orange zinnia with some red Salvia coccinea to the far left, yellow melampodium just left and Verbena bonariensis behind.”
“He was said to have employed the herb hellebore in the cure, which thence obtained the name of ‘melampodium.’] [Footnote 35: _Lyncestis.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘melampodium’.
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Logolepsy
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Panvocalics
Panvocalics are words that contain all the vowels. Listed here are "euvocalics": words that have each of the five vowels only once. (These are also a kind of supervocalic.) Words that also have a "...
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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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Christmas
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