Definitions

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  • noun Any of several species of flowering plants in genus Watsonia within the family Iridaceae, the bugle lily.

Etymologies

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Named after W. Watson, English botanist died 1787.

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Examples

  • Here in their season grow the blue agapanthus, the wild watsonia, and the red-hot poker, and now and then it happens that one may glimpse an arum in a dell.

    Cry, the Beloved Country Alan Paton 1948

  • Here in their season grow the blue agapanthus, the wild watsonia, and the red-hot poker, and now and then it happens that one may glimpse an arum in a dell.

    Cry, the Beloved Country Alan Paton 1948

  • Here in their season grow the blue agapanthus, the wild watsonia, and the red-hot poker, and now and then it happens that one may glimpse an arum in a dell.

    Cry, the Beloved Country Alan Paton 1948

  • Here in their season grow the blue agapanthus, the wild watsonia, and the red-hot poker, and now and then it happens that one may glimpse an arum in a dell.

    Cry, the Beloved Country Alan Paton 1948

  • Here in their season grow the blue agapanthus, the wild watsonia, and the red-hot poker, and now and then it happens that one may glimpse an arum in a dell.

    Cry, the Beloved Country Alan Paton 1948

  • Here in their season grow the blue agapanthus, the wild watsonia, and the red-hot poker, and now and then it happens that one may glimpse an arum in a dell.

    Cry, the Beloved Country Alan Paton 1948

  • Here in their season grow the blue agapanthus, the wild watsonia, and the red-hot poker, and now and then it happens that one may glimpse an arum in a dell.

    Cry, the Beloved Country Alan Paton 1948

  • Here in their season grow the blue agapanthus, the wild watsonia, and the red-hot poker, and now and then it happens that one may glimpse an arum in a dell.

    Cry, the Beloved Country Alan Paton 1948

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