Definition of Drypis

1. Noun. Spiny-leaved perennial herb of southern Europe having terminal clusters of small flowers.

Group relationships: Genus Drypis
Generic synonyms: Herb, Herbaceous Plant

Lexicographical Neighbors of Drypis

drylots
dryly
drymouth
drymouths
dryness
drynesses
drynurse
drynursed
drynurses
drynursing
dryobalanops
dryolestid
dryolestids
dryopithecine
dryopithecines
drypis (current term)
drypoint
drypoints
drys
drysalter
drysalteries
drysalters
drysaltery
drysdallite
drystone
drystones
drysuit
drysuited
drysuits
dryte

Literary usage of Drypis

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

1. The English Rock-garden by Reginald John Farrer (1919)
"drypis SPINOSA. Rockies, where it forms mats and masses in the shingle, exactly like those of D. ... drypis spinosa is a little branching, thorny-leaved ..."

2. A General System of Botany Descriptive and Analytical: In Two Parts by Emmanuel Le Maout, Joseph Decaisne, Joseph Dalton Hooker (1876)
"EMBRYO more or less curved, peripheric or annular (drypis), or nearly straight in the ... drypis. ..."

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