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- proper noun A taxonomic
genus within thefamily Myrtaceae — theverticordias .
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Examples
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The top lefthand pix on this page is also Verticordia.
No, mate, it's Australian! Glenda Larke 2009
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The top lefthand pix on this page is also Verticordia.
Archive 2009-07-01 Glenda Larke 2009
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{ 'Epistrophoa} (Verticordia), on the way up to the Carian
Hellenica 431 BC-350? BC Xenophon 1874
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I found Verticordia, a good sized tree, and a Melaleuca with clustered orange blossoms and smooth bark, which I mentioned as growing on the supposed Nassau.
Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 Ludwig Leichhardt 1830
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While Venus/Aphrodite is usually associated with lust, as Verticordia, she was in charge of chastity, according to Ovid [Richardson].
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