Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of polypetalous plants of the order Melastomaceæ, type of the tribe Rhexieæ.
- noun In zoology, a genus of hemipterous insects.
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- noun botany Any of the
genus Rhexia of plants in thefamily Melastomataceae.
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- noun deer grass
Etymologies
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From the genus name.
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Examples
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The bright blue flowers of the soap-wort gentian were sprinkled here and there in the adjacent meadows, like flowers which Proserpine had dropped, and still farther in the fields or higher on the bank were seen the purple Gerardia, the Virginian rhexia, and drooping neottia or ladies'-tresses; while from the more distant waysides which we occasionally passed, and banks where the sun had lodged, was reflected still a dull yellow beam from the ranks of tansy, now past its prime.
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