Definition of Swainsona

1. Noun. A genus of Australian herbs and subshrubs: darling peas.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Swainsona

Sverige
Sveta
Sveti Nikole
Svetlana
Svetoslav
Svipdagsmál
Svizzera
Swabia
Swabian
Swaddler
Swaddlers
Swadesh
Swadesh list
Swadesh lists
Swahili
Swainsona (current term)
Swainsona galegifolia
Swainsona grandiflora
Swainsona greyana
Swamigal
Swaminarayan
Swammerdam
Swan
Swan River daisy
Swan River everlasting
Swanage
Swansea
Swanson
Swanwick
Swarga

Literary usage of Swainsona

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

1. Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Or, Flower-garden Displayed by John Sims (1815)
"... in Swainsona is terminal, in Co LUTE A lateral ; and the flight difference in the confidence of the Legumen, which appears to us not very remarkable ..."

2. Hortus Kewensis; Or, A Catalogue of the Plants Cultivated in the Royal by William Aiton (1812)
"Purp'le-flower'd Swainsona. Nat. of New South Wales. Colonel William Paterson. Introd. 1802, by the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. ..."

3. Narrative of an Expedition Into Central Australia, Performed Under the by Charles Sturt (1849)
"Swainsona ? (laxa) glabra, caule ramoso, ... and as the fruit is unknown, and the flowers yellow, I refer it with a doubt to Swainsona. ..."

4. The Forage Plants of Australia by Frederick Turner (1891)
"M. " Orobus like Swainsona." llora Austr., Vol. 7/, p. 222. ... Under these circumstances they are not long in germinating. Swainsona ..."

5. Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Or, Flower-garden Displayed by John Sims (1815)
"... in Swainsona is terminal, in Co LUTE A lateral ; and the flight difference in the confidence of the Legumen, which appears to us not very remarkable ..."

6. Hortus Kewensis; Or, A Catalogue of the Plants Cultivated in the Royal by William Aiton (1812)
"Purp'le-flower'd Swainsona. Nat. of New South Wales. Colonel William Paterson. Introd. 1802, by the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. ..."

7. Narrative of an Expedition Into Central Australia, Performed Under the by Charles Sturt (1849)
"... in any more recent work in which the generic character of Swainsona is given. 8. Swainsona ? (laxa) glabra, caule ramoso, ... with a doubt to Swainsona. ..."

8. The Forage Plants of Australia by Frederick Turner (1891)
"M. " Orobus like Swainsona." llora Austr., Vol. 7/, p. 222. ... Under these circumstances they are not long in germinating. Swainsona ..."

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