Definition of Mimulus

1. a plant of the musk and monkey-flower genus [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mimulus

mimolette
mimophant
mimophants
mimosa
mimosa bush
mimosae
mimosas
mimosine
mimotannic
mimotannic acid
mimsey
mimsier
mimsies
mimsiest
mimulus (current term)
mimuluses
min
min.
min recombinase
mina
minability
minable
minaceous
minacious
minacities
minacity
minae
minah
minahs

Literary usage of Mimulus

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

1. The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom by Charles Darwin (1876)
"... the six following genera: mimulus, Digitalis, Calceolaria, Linaria, Verbascum, ... mimulus LUTEUS. The plants which I raised from purchased seed varied ..."

2. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign (1895)
"mimulus LUTEUS AND SOME OF ITS ALLIES. BY EDWARD L. GREENE. ... The discoverer of the original yellow mimulus neither made herbarium specimens of it, ..."

3. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"Corolla, <bc., of mimulus proper : calyx short and ... pilota, Jit-nth, in Comp. Bot. Mag. ii. 57, & DC. 1. c. 394. mimulus ..."

4. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun (1902)
"... mimulus, Rehmannia, Torenia, and Utricularia), of which the Monkey-flower (mimulus luteus, see figs.- 2>8), may serve as a type, ..."

5. The Phytologist: A Popular Botanical Miscellany edited by George Luxford, Edward Newman (1846)
"389), records the fact of mimulus luteus having been met with in several situations in Scotland " quite naturalized," and he adds, " it may be indigenous ..."

6. The Flower Garden: Or, Breck's Book of Flowers; in which are Described All by Joseph Breck (1856)
"mimulus. Monkey Flower. « The species are showy plants, of the easiest culture, in almost any soil or situation not over dry. They are perennials in the ..."

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