Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of scrophulariaceous plants of the tribe Gratioleæ, type of the subtribe Mimuleæ, characterized by a tubularcalyx, which is almost always five-angled or five-toothed, by a two-valved capsule, and by having numerous seeds, with the placentæ usually united to form a central column.
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Examples
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In addition, there has been marked reduction in the range of the Carpentarian antechinus (Pseudantechinus mimulus VU) and brush-tailed possum (Trichosurus vulpecula).
Mitchell grass downs 2007
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The mimulus alone is almost enough to color the hills.
The California Birthday Book Various
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Now beside the runlets on the hills the pipkins of the mimulus, which have stood half full of shadow all day, brim over.
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Then it would fret between its banks until the spangled frills of the mimulus were all tattered with its spray.
Good Stories for Holidays Frances Jenkins Olcott 1917
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Then it would fret between its banks until the spangled frills of the mimulus were all tattered with its spray.
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Next you hear the rain drum on the broad-leaved hellebore, and beat down the mimulus beside the brook.
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The color scheme runs along the high ridges from blue to rosy purple, carmine and coral red; along the water borders it is chiefly white and yellow where the mimulus makes a vivid note, running into red when the two schemes meet and mix about the borders of the meadows, at the upper limit of the columbine.
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The color scheme runs along the high ridges from blue to rosy purple, carmine and coral red; along the water borders it is chiefly white and yellow where the mimulus makes a vivid note, running into red when the two schemes meet and mix about the borders of the meadows, at the upper limit of the columbine.
The Land of Little Rain Mary Hunter Austin 1901
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Next you hear the rain drum on the broad-leaved hellebore, and beat down the mimulus beside the brook.
The Land of Little Rain Mary Hunter Austin 1901
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The fourth lakelet had no rush-or sedge-beds and no reeds, and was almost covered with a luxuriant growth of the floating _camalote, _ a plant which at a distance resembles the wild musk or mimulus in its masses of bright green leaves and brilliant yellow blossoms.
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