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- noun Plural form of
aconite .
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Examples
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I know spring is right around the corner when I see the spring aconites.
Archive 2008-04-01 The Nag 2008
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Tete a Tete has just started flowering, the very warm weather, caused the snowdrops and aconites to finish quickly this year, boo!
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Thanks about the bulbs, I use Van Engelen, the Scheepers sister company, why have I not noticed the aconites?
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The guides are a terrific resource, with detailed information (including hardiness zones) on 269 flowering and foliage plants, from aconites to zinnias.
Tip of the Day: USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map can help you pick the right flowers and trees 2010
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The guides are a terrific resource, with detailed information including hardiness zones on 269 flowering and foliage plants, from aconites to zinnias.
Tip of the Day: USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map can help you pick the right flowers and trees 2010
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No, not the winter aconites with their yellow flowers pushing up through the snow but trucks moving stuff into the Courthouse Theatre, which is virtually in my backyard.
Archive 2008-03-01 The Nag 2008
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Likely say, "Oh, do excuse me please, you're treading on my aconites," or some such rot.
Up In A Heaval Anthony, Piers 2002
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In the latter case it may be due to lateral chorisis, to substitution, or to the development of organs usually suppressed; thus, when in aconites we meet with four or five horn-like nectaries (petals) instead of two only, as usual, the supernumerary ones are accounted for by the inordinate development of parts which ordinarily are in an abortive or rudimentary state only.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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In the case of peloric aconites [234] the lateral and sometimes the inferior coloured sepals assume the hooded form usually peculiar to the upper sepal only, the number of the petals or nectaries being correspondingly increased.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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The garden was adjoined by a sort of wilderness, with big trees and ground-ivy, and open spaces in which aconites and snowdrops were beginning to show themselves.
Father Payne Benson, Arthur C. 1915
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