Definition of Caltha

1. Noun. A genus of Caltha.


Definition of Caltha

1. a type of plant [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Caltha

Calopogon tuberosum
Calori
Calori's bursa
Caloscypha fulgens
Calosoma scrutator
Calostoma cinnabarina
Calostoma lutescens
Calostoma ravenelii
Calostomataceae
Calot
Calot's triangle
Caloundra
Calpe
Calpha-dehydrogenase
Caltanissetta
Caltha (current term)
Caltha palustris
Calum
Calusa
Caluyanon
Calvados
Calvary
Calvary clover
Calvary cross
Calvatia
Calvatia gigantea
Calve
Calve-Perthes disease
Calvert Vaux
Calvin

Literary usage of Caltha

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Natural History of Pliny by Pliny, John Bostock, Henry Thomas Riley (1856)
"Next to it comes the caltha, the flowers of which are of similar colour and size ;5 in the number of its petals, however, it surpasses the marine violet, ..."

2. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London by Linnean Society of London (1807)
"THE figure which accompanies this paper is of a new Caltha> •which I had some time ago ... It differs from the Caltha palustris in having a creeping stalk, ..."

3. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Eberhard Goebel (1905)
"Caltha palustris. As an example I take Caltha palustris, of which Fig. 246 shows in the figure to the left ... Caltha palustris. Young leaves dissected oat. ..."

4. A Botanical Materia Medica by Jonathan Stokes (1812)
"Caltha. Calyx none. Petals 5 to 7. Nectaria none. Capsules 4 to 17, ... Caltha palustris. Leaves cordato-reniform. Stem erect. Obs. 81. In wet ground. ..."

5. Pittonia by Edward Lee Greene (1901)
"During almost thirty years I have been acquiring familiarity in field and herbarium with the white-flowered Caltha species common in alpine or subalpine ..."

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