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单词 hippeastrum
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Example sentences from the Web for hippeastrum

  • Pot young plants of Hippeastrum, and start the established ones.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7|Various
  • All the species of the genus Hippeastrum produce hybrid offspring which are invariably fertile.

    Darwinism (1889)|Alfred Russel Wallace
  • The most popular species for window gardens is A. Johnsoni (properly a hippeastrum), with red flowers.

    The Practical Garden-Book|C. E. Hunn

hippeastrum

/ (hɪpɪˈæstrəm) /

noun

any plant of the South American amaryllidaceous genus Hippeastrum: cultivated for their large funnel-shaped typically red flowers

Word Origin for hippeastrum

C19: New Latin, from Greek hippeus knight + astron star

Words nearby hippeastrum

hiplength, hipp-, hipparch, Hipparchus, Hipparchus satellite, hippeastrum, hipped, hipped roof, Hippel's disease, Hippias, hippie
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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