Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of erect annual or perennial herbs, of the order Scrophulariaceœ, of North and South America, mostly extratropical.
- noun In zoology, the typical genus of corals of the family Gerardiidœ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun any plant of the genus Gerardia.
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- noun any plant of the genus Gerardia
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Examples
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The reserve is home to several protected species, including the Federally Endangered Sandplain Gerardia.
Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Massachusetts 2007
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Gerardia, Apluda, Senecio pubescens, were found in similar spots.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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Asters of imperial purple, golden rod fit for kings 'scepters, march along with her in ever thinning ranks; the great bindweed covers fences and clambers up dying cornstalks; and in many a covert and beside the open ditches the Gerardia swings her pink and airy bells.
Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man Marie Conway Oemler 1905
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Of our three species, my own favorite is the one of the narrow leaves (_Gerardia tenuifolia_), its longer and slighter flower-stems giving it an airiness and grace peculiarly its own.
The Foot-path Way Bradford Torrey 1877
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But radiocarbon studies had pinned ages of about 2,000 to 3,000 years on other Gerardia colonies in the Atlantic and Pacific.
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Similar dates were found for some Leiopathes specimens. the Hawaiian specimens and came up with similarly ancient ages: about 2,742 years for Gerardia and 4,265 years for Leiopathes.
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A radiocarbon-dating study published in 2006 by Brendan Roark, then at Stanford University in California, suggested that living colonies of Gerardia corals could be more than 2,700 years old1.
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Previous estimates of the corals 'ages, made by counting what were thought to be annual growth rings, put the maximum age for Gerardia sp. in Hawaii at about 70 years.
Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming RSS Newsfeed 2009
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Their detailed study confirms the longest lived, Gerardia, to be 2,742 years old and Leiopathes to be 4,265 years old.
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Similar dates were found for some Leiopathes specimens. the Hawaiian specimens and came up with similarly ancient ages: about 2,742 years for Gerardia and 4,265 years for Leiopathes.
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