Definition of Lasthenia

1. Noun. Small genus of herbs of Pacific coast of North and South America.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Lasthenia

Lasiurus borealis
Lasix
Laskar Jihad
Last Day
Last Frontier
Last Judgement
Last Judgment
Last Supper
Last Thursdayism
Lastex
Lasthenia
Lasthenia chrysostoma
Lastreopsis
Laszlo Lowestein
Lat.
Latarget
Latarget's nerve
Latarget's vein
Late Egyptian
Late Greek
Late Latin
Late Middle Ages
Late antiquity
Lateef
Lateran

Literary usage of Lasthenia

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

1. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"lasthenia, Cass. Head many-flowered, with 5 to 15 pistillate rays; all the flowers ... The first section is intermediate between the genuine lasthenia and ..."

2. Plant Names, Scientific and Popular, Including in the Case of Each Plant the by Albert Brown Lyons (1900)
"Gum resin, called Laser, acrid, bitter, reputed purgative. 1140. lasthenia, Cass. lasthenia. Compositae. Named for lasthenia, a pupil of Plato. Syn. ..."

3. Woman: In All Ages and in All Countries by Mitchell Carroll, Alfred Brittain, Edward Bagby Pollard, Pierce Butler, John Robert Effinger, Hugo Paul Thieme, Hermann Schoenfeld, Bartlett Burleigh James, John Ruse Larus (1907)
"Nothing but what is commendable is known of her, but her reputation has suffered from the association of her name with that of lasthenia. ..."

4. Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gamopetalae, Being a Second Edition by Asa Gray (1888)
"(Dedicated "J the discoverer to Charles Crocker, Esq., of San Francisco, one of the most Habit, involucre, flowers, and receptacle essentially of lasthenia ..."

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