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单词 phacelia
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Definition of phacelia in English:

phacelia

noun fəˈsiːlɪəfəˈsēlēə
  • A herbaceous American plant with clustered blue, violet, or white flowers.

    Genus Phacelia, family Hydrophyllaceae

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Silky phacelia stood purple and straight, pussy toes bowed their heads.
    • In the more stabilized dune sections, the tawny sands flare with color, thanks to the blossoms of desert gold, pink desert sand verbena, and purple phacelia.
    • This year I'm using winter tares - a winter hardy vetch which will fix nitrogen and provide good protection, but in the past I've also used clovers, buckwheat, phacelia and grazing rye.
    • On the desert floor all around us blossomed yellow desert dandelions and purple phacelias.
    • Phacelia is a genus made up of about 150 species, It is well represented in our mountains where several phacelias are quite showy plants.

Origin

Modern Latin, from Greek phakelos 'cluster'.

 
 

Definition of phacelia in US English:

phacelia

nounfəˈsēlēə
  • A herbaceous American plant with clustered blue, violet, or white flowers.

    Genus Phacelia, family Hydrophyllaceae

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Silky phacelia stood purple and straight, pussy toes bowed their heads.
    • This year I'm using winter tares - a winter hardy vetch which will fix nitrogen and provide good protection, but in the past I've also used clovers, buckwheat, phacelia and grazing rye.
    • On the desert floor all around us blossomed yellow desert dandelions and purple phacelias.
    • In the more stabilized dune sections, the tawny sands flare with color, thanks to the blossoms of desert gold, pink desert sand verbena, and purple phacelia.
    • Phacelia is a genus made up of about 150 species, It is well represented in our mountains where several phacelias are quite showy plants.

Origin

Modern Latin, from Greek phakelos ‘cluster’.

 
 
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