Definition of Brachycome

1. Noun. Mostly Australian herbs having basal or alternate leaves and loosely corymbose flower heads.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Brachycome

Braasch catheter
Brabancon griffon
Brabant
Brabantian
Brabantine
Brachinus
Brachman
Brachmans
Bracht-Wachter lesion
Brachychiton
Brachychiton acerifolius
Brachychiton australis
Brachychiton populneus
Brachychiton rupestris
Brachycome
Brachycome Iberidifolia
Brachydanio rerio
Brachystegia
Brachystegia speciformis
Brad
Bradbury
Braden
Bradford
Bradford frame
Bradford method
Bradlee
Bradley
Bradley's spleenwort
Bradley method

Literary usage of Brachycome

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

1. The Flower Garden, Or, Breck's Book of Flowers: In which are Described All by Joseph Breck (1858)
"brachycome. brachycome iberidifolia.. — Swan Daisy. — A beautiful hardy annual, of dwarf habit, six or eight inches high; in bloom from July to September. ..."

2. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1856)
"brachycome nivalis, F. Muell.; perennial, herbaceous, smooth; leaves all radical, ... HAB. On the highest cliffs of Mount Buller. 107. brachycome ..."

3. Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse by Edward Step (1897)
"Belli*, however, has no pappus, whilst brachycome has. Another point in which the genera differ is found in the character of the bracts forming the ..."

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