Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of leguminous plants of the tribe Trifolieœ; known by the monadelphous stamens.
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- noun genus of European subshrubs or herbs having pink or purple or yellow solitary or clustered flowers: restharrow
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Examples
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There is a wanton tangling and mingling of the waste-loving flowers, such as the yellow toad-flax, the bristling viper's bugloss, the thorny ononis that spreads a hue of pink as it creeps along the ground, sky-blue chicory on wiry stems, large milk-white blooms of _datura_, and purple heads of
Two Summers in Guyenne Edward Harrison Barker 1885
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Those which now made the best show of bloom were the star-thistle centaurea and _ononis repens_.
Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine Edward Harrison Barker 1885
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Entire fields are covered with the troublesome creeping stems of the spinous ononis, while the bare hillsides are studded with the dangerous capsules of the puliuris and tribulus.
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