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Definition of Knaurs
1. knaur [n] - See also: knaur
Lexicographical Neighbors of Knaurs
Literary usage of Knaurs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Theory and Practice of Horticulture: Or, An Attempt to Explain the Chief by John Lindley (1855)
"OF PROPAGATION BY EYES AND knaurs. THE power of propagating plants by any other
means than that of seeds depends entirely upon the presence of leaf-buds ..."
2. The Theory of Horticulture; Or, An Attempt to Explain the Prinipal by John Lindley (1840)
"OF PROPAGATION BY EYES AND knaurs. THE power of propagating plants by any other
means than that of seeds depends entirely upon the presence of leaf-buds ..."
3. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1914)
"Some greenhouse plants, eg, camellia, laurestinus, tender grapes, The excrescences,
knots or knaurs, which are found on the trunks and the main limbs of ..."
4. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography by Historical Society of Pennsylvania (1910)
"... for in some places in a bar it will when cold brake like glass and at an other
as tough as iron, And in the time rentgen worked at knaurs he refined for ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"Turning now to outgrowths of a woody nature, the well-known burrs or knaurs," so
common on elms and other trees are cases in point. ..."
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