Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of numerous plants of the genus Oxalis, having cloverlike compound leaves usually with three leaflets and five-petaled, variously colored flowers.
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- noun horticulture Any of various ornamental flowering plants of the genus
Oxalis
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Astonishingly beautiful results may be had with small baskets by using only one sort of plant in each, such as oxalis, ivy geranium or some trailing flowering vines.
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Artist, educator and fashion designer Sasha Duerr uses just about anything to dye clothing: from kitchen waste (coffee grounds, avocado pits and onion skins) to invasive "weeds" (wild fennel, oxalis) to the leaves, fruit or petals of nearly any tree or plant (maple, pear, fern, dahlia, etc).
Kirsten Dirksen: Magic of Permacouture: DIY Dyes From Your Kitchen/Garden Create Living Color Richer Than Synthetics (VIDEO) Kirsten Dirksen 2012
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Librarians grow like oxalis around the crust of the town, there is no such thing as a diminutive librarian down our way, and the dreams I have at night about this very one involve ladders and falling and being caught.
Top-Shelf Syndrome Meg Pokrass 2011
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Artist, educator and fashion designer Sasha Duerr uses just about anything to dye clothing: from kitchen waste (coffee grounds, avocado pits and onion skins) to invasive "weeds" (wild fennel, oxalis) to the leaves, fruit or petals of nearly any tree or plant (maple, pear, fern, dahlia, etc).
Kirsten Dirksen: Magic of Permacouture: DIY Dyes From Your Kitchen/Garden Create Living Color Richer Than Synthetics (VIDEO) Kirsten Dirksen 2012
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Artist, educator and fashion designer Sasha Duerr uses just about anything to dye clothing: from kitchen waste (coffee grounds, avocado pits and onion skins) to invasive "weeds" (wild fennel, oxalis) to the leaves, fruit or petals of nearly any tree or plant (maple, pear, fern, dahlia, etc).
Kirsten Dirksen: Magic of Permacouture: DIY Dyes From Your Kitchen/Garden Create Living Color Richer Than Synthetics (VIDEO) Kirsten Dirksen 2012
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And on Sunday I managed to squeeze in some gardening (I hate oxalis - not sure if you have it in the Northern Hemisphere but if you don't your lucky ... it's EVIL!).
Weekly Catchup Nalini Singh 2008
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Dear Frances, Thank you for the blessing and wishes~Your photos are splendid…love the oxalis, but my oh my~you are still master of the spider web photo. xxgail
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The purple oxalis is not hardy for me either, but will be planted out anyway, maybe a couple of the little bulblets will be brought into the greenhouse in the fall, it is so sweet.
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I have that silly oxalis too, but have found that dense planting of the desirables will shade it out.
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Your slopes are much more of a challenge than mine; your violets are about as annoying as my oxalis.
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