Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Linnean genus of verbenaceous shrubs, now included in Clerodendron.
- noun [lowercase] A plant of the former genus Volkameria.
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Examples
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We soon leave the brilliant, unsatisfying colours of tulips and coreopsis, but we turn again and again to drink in the sweetness of orange-blossoms or volkameria-flowers compared separately, each in its own land, to
The Duchesse De Langeais Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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We soon leave the brilliant, unsatisfying colours of tulips and coreopsis, but we turn again and again to drink in the sweetness of orange-blossoms or volkameria-flowers compared separately, each in its own land, to
The Thirteen Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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Madame de Mortsauf was the skylark of Bengal, transported to our cold Europe, mournful on its perch, silent and dying in the cage of a naturalist; Henriette was the singing bird of oriental poems in groves beside the Ganges, flying from branch to branch like a living jewel amid the roses of a volkameria that ever blooms.
The Lily of the Valley Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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