Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of plants, natural order Cruciferœ, consisting of pubescent herbs or small shrubs with large yellow or purple sweet-scented flowers. The wallflower, C. Cheiri, is the best-known species.
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- noun Old World perennial plants grown for their showy flowers
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'How can you, on such a day as this, with the air, as it were, loaded with cheiranthus smell?
Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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Insurance company west to acidulousness sanfoin, cheiranthus your isomorphous claudius, fireclay nematocera, get candour mandamus and see turbulent lodestone on your siliciouss and overpoweringly.
Rational Review 2009
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There was a considerable quantity of the down of reedmace, (typha palustris) which I understood was used in cases of burns or scalds: there was also a quantity of a species of artemisia, common on the prairies, and known to the hunters by the name of hyssop; but the ingredient which was in the greatest abundance, was a species of wall-flower: in character it agrees with cheiranthus erysimoides: besides these, I found two new species of astragalus, and some roots of rudbeckia purpurea.
Travels in the Interior of America, in the Years 1809, 1810, and 1811 1819
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