Definition of Meadow beauty

1. Noun. Any of several plants of the genus Rhexia usually having pink-purple to magenta flowers; eastern North America.

Exact synonyms: Deer Grass
Group relationships: Genus Rhexia, Rhexia
Generic synonyms: Subshrub, Suffrutex

Lexicographical Neighbors of Meadow Beauty

meacock
meacocks
mead
mead-bench
mead-benches
mead-johnson nutritionals
mead bench
mead hall
meader
meaderies
meaders
meadery
meadlike
meadow
meadow-beauty family
meadow beauty (current term)
meadow bright
meadow brown
meadow browns
meadow clary
meadow cranesbill
meadow cress
meadow dermatitis
meadow fern
meadow fescue
meadow foxtail
meadow goldenrod
meadow horsetail

Literary usage of Meadow beauty

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, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"1818. i MEADOW-BEAUTY FAMILY. Herbs (shrubs or trees in tropical regions), with opposite 3-g-nerved simple leaves, and regular perfect, often showy, ..."

2. Southern Wild Flowers and Trees: Together with Shrubs, Vines and Various by Alice Lounsberry (1901)
"Originally it has been imported from eastern Asia. When well grown and hung with its deep pink, crinkly- bloom it is very beautiful. THE MEADOW=BEAUTY ..."

3. Nature's Garden: An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect by Neltje Blanchan (1907)
"Suggesting a brilliant magenta evening primrose in form, the meadow-beauty is likewise a rather niggardly bloomer, only a few flowers in each cluster ..."

4. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau (1906)
"... the paniculatum the most delicate. To-day and yesterday quite warm, or hot, again. I am struck again and again by the richness of the meadow-beauty ..."

5. Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States by Asa Gray (1859)
"MEADOW-BEAUTY. Calyx-tube urn-shaped, coherent with the ovary below, and continued above it, persistent, 4-cleft at the apex. Petals 4, convolute in the bud ..."

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