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Definition of Ceanothuses
1. ceanothus [n] - See also: ceanothus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ceanothuses
Literary usage of Ceanothuses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Paxton's Flower Garden by John Lindley, Sir Joseph Paxton (1853)
"... a white-flowered species of little beauty, all the Californien ceanothuses
prove to be hardy near London. It is only requisite that they should not be ..."
2. The Floricultural Cabinet, and Florists Magazine by Joseph Harrison (1854)
"ceanothuses comprise a genus of showy and highly interesting plants. Within the
last half a dozen years, several very handsome ones have been introduced. ..."
3. Biennial Report by California Dept. of Agriculture, California State Commission of Horticulture (1890)
"Among the native shrubs I am now thinking of the various kinds of ceanothuses (the
so called California lilac), so lovely in the spring with its feathery ..."
4. The MAGAZINE of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and (1859)
"The most magnificent of all the Californian ceanothuses, having terminal spikes,
fully three feet long, and with such a profusion of the deepest ..."
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