Definition of Spraguea

1. Noun. Small genus of usually perennial herbs having deep woody taproots and flower heads of umbels or cymes.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Spraguea

Spondias purpurea
Spondweni virus
Sporades
Sporanox
Spork
Sporobolus
Sporobolus cryptandrus
Sporobolus poiretii
Sporocystinea
Sporotrichum
Spotsylvania
Sprachgefühl
Spraguea (current term)
Spraguea umbellatum
Sprechstimme
Spree
Sprengel pump
Sprengel pumps
Spring Framework
Spring Web Flow
Springbok
Springboks
Springfield
Springfielder
Springfielders
Springfieldian

Literary usage of Spraguea

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

1. Pittonia by Edward Lee Greene (1889)
"If it is purposed to keep Spraguea in the rank of a genus, it will need a less dubious support in the Synoptical Flora than has been brought ..."

2. Erythea: A Journal of Botany, West American and General by Willis Linn Jepson (1895)
"282) has thought it to be "Spraguea umbellata" and so catalogued it His presuming to reinstate Spraguea is therefore singularly infelicitous. ..."

3. Muhlenbergia: A Journal of Botany edited by Amos Arthur Heller, Patrick Beveridge Kennedy (1906)
"It has never been properly described, but some day we hope to find it again here in California, and carefully diagnose it in the living state. Spraguea 1n ..."

4. A Contribution to Our Knowledge of Seedlings by John Lubbock (1892)
"... and Spraguea umbellata agree very closely with Portulaca except that the seeds of Spraguea are thickest in the middle and taper to each end, ..."

5. Plant Names, Scientific and Popular, Including in the Case of Each Plant the by Albert Brown Lyons (1900)
"Flower buds used for a sweetmeat. Fruit laxative, esculent. 1899. Spraguea, Tor. Spraguea. Portulacaceae. Herbs closely related to Claytonia. ..."

6. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium by United States National Herbarium, United States National Museum (1906)
"RANGE: British Columbia to Oregon in the coast region. SPECIMENS EXAMINED: Seattle, Piper 241. ZONAL DISTRIBUTION: Humid Transition. Spraguea. 1. ..."

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