Definition of Glory pea

1. Noun. Any of various shrubs or vines of the genus Clianthus having compound leaves and pea-like red flowers in drooping racemes.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Glory Pea

glorious
gloriously
gloriousness
gloriousnesses
glory-hole
glory-holes
glory-of-the-snow
glory box
glory boxes
glory days
glory fern
glory holes
glory lily
glory pea (current term)
gloryholers
glorying
gloss
gloss-
gloss over
glossa
glossae
glossagra
glossal
glossalgia
glossanthrax
glossarial
glossarially

Literary usage of Glory pea

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

1. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste by Luther Tucker (1871)
"... or " glory pea." My children call them " Scarlet Birds." Mr. В. К. Bliss favors us with an illustration of it, and says : " It is one of the most ..."

2. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"... as one of the most difficult to raise of all greenhouse plants, it being very impatient of any disturbance of the root, and being subject glory pea ..."

3. The Unheated Greenhouse by K. L. Davidson (1907)
"One of the most gorgeous of Australasian leguminous plants, Clianthus puniceus, is sometimes called the glory pea of New Zealand. ..."

4. Henderson's Handbook of Plants and General Horticulture by Peter Henderson (1904)
"... glory pea, a species from the desert regions of Australia, is by far the most beautiful of the genus, either for the green-house or the border. ..."

5. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1914)
"glory pea. GLORY VINE. PARROT'S BILL. Tender half-trailing shrubs, with large, ... glory pea. Fig. 999. Height 2-4 ft.: plant glaucous and hoary, ..."

6. Ladies' Flower-garden of Ornamental Greenouse Plants / by by Loundon (Jane) (1848)
"It is very inferior in beauty to the common glory pea, but it is still worth cultivating for its pink flowers, ..."

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