单词 | lechenaultia |
释义 | lechenaultian. Any of the herbaceous plants and evergreen shrubs of the Australian genus Lechenaultia (family Goodeniaceae), which bear red, blue, white, or yellow flowers and are popular as garden plants. Also (in form Lechenaultia): the genus itself. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > non-British plants or herbs > [noun] > Australasian > other Australian plants lechenaultia1814 spear-grass1847 Spaniard1851 acroclinium1852 fuchsia1866 scrub vine1866 bayonet grass1868 Scotchman1872 Queensland hemp1876 Spanish soldier1901 bindi-eye1911 scab weed1927 1814 Encycl. Londinensis XII. (at cited word) Lechenaultia,..in botany, a genus of the class pentandria, order monogynia, natural order of campanaceæ. 1825 Curtis's Bot. Mag. 52 2600 (heading) Handsome Lechenaultia. 1880 S. Wood Tree Pruner v. 126 There is nothing among greenhouse plants capable of exciting more interest than a well-grown Leschenaultia when in full flower. 1916 Standard Cycl. Hort. IV. 1844/2 The leschenaultias require special care in watering. 1966 Times 11 Nov. (W. Austral. Suppl.) p. iv/2 The exquisite sky-blue leschenaultia..shows its versatility by appearing, in different regions, in scarlet, crimson, blood-red, yellow, orange and green-blue. 1995 J. Williams W. Austral. (Lonely Planet) 32 (caption) Wreath Lechenaultia (Lechenaultia macrantha). 2013 D. Growns & M. Webb in M. Webb Austral. Native Plants ix. 110/2 The genus Lechenaultia mostly occurs in the south-west of Western Australia. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1814 |
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