Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various often strong-smelling plants of the genus Cleome, native chiefly to warm regions and including several ornamentals.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A large genus of herbaceous and shrubby plants, natural order Capparidaceæ, natives principally of tropical America, Egypt, and Arabia. Many of the species have showy flowers, and a few are cultivated for ornament, as C. spinosa, C. rosea, etc.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of various often strong-smelling plants of the genus Cleome having showy spider-shaped flowers
- noun tropical and subtropical annual or perennial herbs or low shrubs
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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They may be half-empty packets that didn't get used the previous year, or they may be seeds you collected from your non-hybrid plants such as cleome (spider flower).
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Examples that will do well in the Washington area are black-eyed Susans, purple coneflowers, butterfly weeds, goldenrods, coreopsis, wild and sulphur cosmos, gaillardias and cleome.
Green Scene: Decide now where to start as you plan your garden - seed or plant? Joel M. Lerner 2011
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Use phlox 'David' to the back of the border in tandem with WHITE cleome 'Sparkler.'
A SUNNY CONEFLOWER BORDER Pooky 2009
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Besides these I have hosta, sedum, anemone, cleome and herbs.
It's Almost Over For Another Year The Nag 2006
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Besides these I have hosta, sedum, anemone, cleome and herbs.
Archive 2006-09-01 The Nag 2006
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Under my window a colony of cleome made a soft web of bloom that drew me every morning for a long still time; and one day I discovered that I was looking into a rare fretwork of fawn and straw colored twigs from which both bloom and leaf had gone, and I could not say if it had been for a matter of weeks or days.
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Under my window a colony of cleome made a soft web of bloom that drew me every morning for a long still time; and one day I discovered that I was looking into a rare fretwork of fawn and straw colored twigs from which both bloom and leaf had gone, and I could not say if it had been for a matter of weeks or days.
The Land of Little Rain Mary Hunter Austin 1901
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Yonder the orange predominates in the showy flowers of the asclepia; and beyond, the eye roams over the pink blossoms of the cleome.
The Scalp Hunters Mayne Reid 1850
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This spring I sowed a different clutch of annuals: Ammi visnaga, with beautiful pale-green domes of flower, green-flowered tobacco plants, English marigolds, a white-flowered cleome called 'Helen Campbell'.
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Annuals flowers like cleome, cosmos, zinnias and sunflowers are excellent bee attractors.
Local News from Wilmington Star News By Charlotte Glen 2010
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