Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of plants of the natural order Ficoideæ; and the tribe Mollugineæ, characterized by a capsular fruit, a three-to five-celled ovary containing many ovules, and stipulate leaves which often appear to be whorled.
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Fici one or two, an Alstonia, Celosia mollugo, Solani sp.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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It feeds on species of bedstraw (Galium verum and G. mollugo), and as the green forms are less abundant than the brown, it has probably undergone some recent change of food-plant or of habits which renders brown the more protective colour.
Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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