Definition of Aubretia

1. aubrieta [n -S] - See also: aubrieta

Lexicographical Neighbors of Aubretia

au jus
au naturel
au naturel(p)
au pair
au pair girl
au pairs
au revoir
aua
aubade
aubades
auberge
auberges
aubergine
aubergines
aubertite
aubretia (current term)
aubretias
aubrieta
aubrietas
aubrietia
aubrietias
aubrite
aubrites
auburn
auburns
auceps
aucepses
auchenium
auction
auction block

Literary usage of Aubretia

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

1. Lectures on Plant Physiology by Ludwig Jost (1907)
"49-3° C. 51.3° C. 35-o° C. 5ao°C. 49-0^ CC 35-o° C'. a8.i°C. While plants like aubretia and Gentiana reach a temperature very little above that of the air, ..."

2. The Small Place: Its Landscape Architecture by Elsa Rehmann (1918)
"The ground between them is covered with all kinds of rock plants, white Rock Cress, dark violet aubretia, snowy Candytuft, white Cerastium tomentosum, ..."

3. A Garden of Pleasure by E. V. B. (Eleanor Vere Boyle), E. V. B. (1895)
"When the common aubretia begins to show in lilac upon its compact mass of grey-green ... It was the season when aubretia shone in all the bloom of her lilac ..."

4. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society by Royal Meteorological Society (Great Britain) (1896)
"Mignonette, pansy, doronicum, chrysanthemum, polyanthus, China and other roses, anemone, yellow marguerite, wallflower, violet, cytisus, and aubretia in ..."

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