Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A genus of ornamental plants of the gamopetalous order Hydrophyllaceæ and the tribe Hydrophylleæ, known by the included stamens and the calyx with appendages; the grove-love. There are 7 or 8 species, natives of North America, chiefly of California: they are tender hairy annuals with dissected leaves and blue, white, or spotted bell-shaped flowers. They form beautiful garden-plants, sometimes called
Californian blue-bell . Among the species is N. insignis, with a pure-blue corolla an inch broad.
WordNet 3.0
- n. any plant of the genus Nemophila
Examples
“We can get some seeds of different annuals, such as nemophila and candytuft, ourselves.”
“Among many others we may particularise the fragrant white-flowered alyssum, the blue, dark purple, spotted, and white varieties of nemophila, white and pink virginian stock, and the large yellow buttercup-like flowered limnanthes.”
“And there was always mignonette and nemophila in window-boxes, so sweet in the evening air?”
“Midsummer came, and by that time the desert was a desert no longer: it was a neat, trim-looking piece of ground with smooth walks, some small but promising crops, and a flower-border gay with geraniums, nasturtiums, sweet-peas, nemophila, and convolvulus.”
“The small flowers particularly essential in separating the larger ones are white and yellow jasmine, nemophila cineraria, verbenas, myrtle, honeysuckle, etc., etc. The pendent flowers give great ease and elegance to a bouquet, and should be placed in first.”
“A tiny stream ran down the tiny valley through a tiny meadow that was carpeted knee-high with grass and blue and white nemophila.”
“The softly shaded stars of globularia, the blue cups of nemophila, the yellow crosses of saponaria, the white and purple ones of sweet rocket, wove patches of rich tapestry, stretching onward and onward, a fabric of royal luxury, so that the young couple might enjoy the delights of that first walk together without fatigue.”
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Verba Silvestria
Words of the Woods or Words of the Wilds
sylvestral, sylvester, silvester, silvestrian, sylvestrian, silvatic, sylvatic, silvan, sylvan, silva, sylva, nemorose and 108 more...
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Botanical Terms
Terms used in botany
contabescence, effloresce, foliate, acervate, nuciform, feracious, fructuous, bifarious, serotinous, sative, demiss, tardive and 168 more...
Tweets
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yarb nemophila, nemophila, nemophila. There, I did it. *checks world still turning* Aug 7, 2011
bilby not in the garden of e.e. cummings, bucko! Aug 7, 2011
biocon The first letter of this generic epithet must be capitalized. Aug 7, 2011