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Definition of Ononis repens

1. Noun. European woody plant having pink flowers and unifoliate leaves and long tough roots; spreads by underground runners.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ononis Repens

Literary usage of Ononis repens

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

1. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign (1895)
"Geranium Robertianum L. White-flowered form, Corwen. Ononis repens b. horrida Lange. Abundant among the sand dunes by ..."

2. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"... weed in the Far West, may be readily distinguished from this by its much smaller yellow flowers and smaller pods. Ononis repens L., an herb of the tribe ..."

3. The Annals of Philosophy by Richard Phillips, E W Brayley (1819)
"... which are by no means exclusively the productions of the seashore : triticum repens, couch-grass; galium verum, ladies' bed-straw; ononis repens, ..."

4. Annals of Philosophy, Or, Magazine of Chemistry, Mineralogy, Mechanics by Thomas Thomson (1819)
"... ladies' bed-straw ; ononis repens, rest harrow ; rosa spinosissima, burnet leaved, or Scotch rose, with some composita, and a few other plants. ..."

5. The Vocabulary of East Anglia: An Attempt to Record the Vulgar Tongue of the by Robert Forby (1830)
"Oenanthe crocata I have found for you; but it dries most intractably. I wish you would gather me two or three dozen seeds of Ononis repens: I have two ..."

6. Agricultural Botany: Theoretical and Practical by John Percival (1921)
"A stoloniferous sub-species, known as Ononis repens L., has creeping stems and is without spines or nearly so. The whole plant is sticky and emits a ..."

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