Definition of Magnolia macrophylla

1. Noun. Large deciduous shrub or tree of southeastern United States having huge leaves in dense false whorls and large creamy flowers tinged purple toward the base.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Magnolia Macrophylla

Magnan's trombone movement
Magnehelic
Magnehelic gauge
Magnesia
Magnesian
Magnesians
Magnetic North
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Magnificat
Magnitogorsk
Magnolia
Magnolia State
Magnolia acuminata
Magnolia fraseri
Magnolia grandiflora
Magnolia macrophylla
Magnolia soulangiana
Magnolia stellata
Magnolia tripetala
Magnolia virginiana
Magnoliaceae
Magnoliidae
Magnoliophyta
Magnoliopsida
Magnox
Magnoxes
Magnus
Magnus' sign
Magpie
Magpies

Literary usage of Magnolia macrophylla

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

1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1897)
"magnolia macrophylla Michx. Great- leaved Magnolia. ... magnolia macrophylla Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. i: 327. 1803. A tree 20°-6o° high, the trunk 6'-20' in ..."

2. The Trees of America: Native and Foreign, Pictorially and Botanically by Daniel Jay Browne (1846)
"HE magnolia macrophylla is the least multiplied of the American species, and is rare- / ly met with in the forests. Its/, general appearance greatly ..."

3. The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and by C M Hovey (1842)
"Some account of the Magnolia, macrophylla, its discovery in a new locality, together with a notice of the Nursery of JV. W. Hatch, Ficksburg, Miss. ..."

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