Lexic.us

Definition of Compass flower

1. Noun. Any of several plants having leaves so arranged on the axis as to indicate the cardinal points of the compass.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Compass Flower

Literary usage of Compass flower

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

1. Holy-days and Holidays: A Treasury of Historical Material, Sermons in Full by Edward Mark Deems (1906)
"It is called the compass flower, because all its petals point to the north. In sunshine and in storm, by day and by night, the little flower points ..."

2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1853)
"compass flower. — “Look at this delicate flower that lifts its head from the meadow — See how its leaves all point to the north, as true as the magnet; ..."

3. Practical Grammar, Based Upon the Text of Longfellow's "Evangeline" and a by William Christopher Sayrs (1903)
"THE compass flower Slowly, slowly, slowly the days succeeded each other, — Days and weeks and months; and the fields of maize that were springing Green from ..."

4. A Year of Beatuiful Thoughts by Jeanie Ashley Bates Greenough (1902)
"This makes it a sure guide for the traveler, and gives it its name,—compass-flower,—from its resemblance to the compass, which always points towards the ..."

5. Lectures on diseases of the nervous system by Samuel Wilks (1883)
"Whether the description of the compass-flower in 'Evangeline' is true I have no means ol ascertaining : " Look at tliis delicate plant, that lifts its head ..."

6. The Cyclopædia of Practical Quotations: English and Latin, with an Appendix by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward (1882)
"... This is the compass-flower, that the finger of traveller's journey Over the sea-like, pathless, limitless waste of God has planted Here in the houseless ..."

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