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Definition of Blood flower
1. Noun. Tropical herb having orange-red flowers followed by pods suggesting a swallow with outspread wings; a weed throughout the tropics.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blood Flower
Literary usage of Blood flower
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People by Chambers, W. and R., publ (1876)
"The bulbs of some of the finest species of B. being very slow to produce offshoots,
a curious method of propagating them is Many-flowered Blood-flower : a, ..."
2. Hortus Kewensis; Or, A Catalogue of the Plants Cultivated in the Royal by William Aiton (1811)
"... or Blood-flower. Nat. of Sierra Leone. Introd. about 1783, by the Earl of
Tankerville. Fl. most part of the Summer. S. If. 5. ..."
3. More Australian Legendary Tales by Katie Langloh Parker (1898)
"Sturt's Desert Pea, the blood flower GREAT was the talking in the camp one morning
of the river tribe, for during the night ..."
4. Every Man His Own Gardener: The Complete Gardener : Being a Gardener's by John Abercrombie, Thomas Mawe (1832)
"... or blood flower, Scarlet African blood flower, ... Ciliated leaved, purple,
Villous blood-flower, Cai mated, or keeled leaved. ..."
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