Definition of Colutea arborescens

1. Noun. Yellow-flowered European shrub cultivated for its succession of yellow flowers and very inflated bladdery pods and as a source of wildlife food.

Exact synonyms: Bladder Senna
Group relationships: Colutea, Genus Colutea
Generic synonyms: Bush, Shrub

Lexicographical Neighbors of Colutea Arborescens

Columba palumbus
Columbia
Columbia-Wenatchi
Columbia Mental Maturity Scale
Columbia River
Columbia University
Columbia tiger lily
Columbian
Columbians
Columbidae
Columbiformes
Columbus
Columbus Day
Columbusing
Colutea
Colutea arborescens
Colymbiformes
Com.
Coma Berenices
Comanche
Comanchero
Comancheros
Comanches
Comandra
Comandra pallida
Comatula
Comatulas
Comatulidae
Combiase
Combine

Literary usage of Colutea arborescens

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

1. The Medico-chirurgical Review by James Johnson, Henry James Johnson (1829)
"A pod of the colutea arborescens was substituted for Hie animal membrane, ... colutea arborescens ..."

2. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1896)
"colutea arborescens—Isolation of an Acid.—Barbey has isolated from the leaves of colutea arborescens, which have a purgative action similar to senna leaves, ..."

3. A Natural History of the British Lepidoptera: A Text-book for Students and by James William Tutt (1908)
"... flying over and around the bushes of colutea arborescens, and which, although covered with swollen pods, had still a few late flowers. ..."

4. The Kitchen and Fruit Gardener: A Select Manual of Kitchen Gardening, and (1847)
"The first (colutea arborescens), a native of Italy, and the Levant, grows ten or twelve feet high, bearing a yellow flower all the summer; the seeds are ..."

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