Definition of One-flowered pyrola

1. Noun. Delicate evergreen dwarf herb of north temperate regions having a solitary white terminal flower; sometimes placed in genus Pyrola.


Lexicographical Neighbors of One-flowered Pyrola

one-day match
one-day matches
one-dimensional
one-dimensional language
one-dimensionality
one-drop rule
one-eared
one-eighth
one-eyed
one-eyed jack
one-eyed jacks
one-fifth
one-finger salute
one-finger salutes
one-flowered pyrola (current term)
one-flowered wintergreen
one-form
one-fourth
one-half
one-hand
one-handed
one-hit wonder
one-hitter
one-horned uterus
one-horse
one-horse town
one-horse towns
one-hundred
one-hundred-year storm

Literary usage of One-flowered pyrola

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

1. Plant Names, Scientific and Popular, Including in the Case of Each Plant the by Albert Brown Lyons (1900)
"one-flowered pyrola. Pyrolaceae. From Greek, "single delight"', alluding to the solitary flower. ... One-flowered Wintergreen, one-flowered pyrola. 1860. ..."

2. How to Know the Wild Flowers: A Guide to the Names, Haunts, and Habits of by Frances Theodora Parsons, Marion Satterlee (1900)
"... one-flowered pyrola. Moneses grandiflora. Heath Family. Scape.—Two to four inches high. Leaves.—Rounded; thin; veiny; toothed; from the roots, Flower. ..."

3. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1914)
"Two species of Chimaphila (Pipsissewa, Prince's Pine), one species of Moneses (one-flowered pyrola,), and a few species of Pyrola ..."

4. Gray's Lessons in Botany and Vegetable Physiology by Asa Gray (1875)
"one-flowered pyrola. Petals 5, widely spreading, orbicular. Filaments awl-shaped, naked : anthers as in Pyrola, but conspicuously 2-horned. ..."

5. Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States: Including the District by Asa Gray, Sereno Watson (1889)
"one-flowered pyrola. Petals 5, widely spreading, orbicular. Filaments awl-shape^, naked ; anthers as in Pyrola, but conspicuously 2-horned. ..."

6. Nature's Garden: An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect by Neltje Blanchan (1907)
"one-flowered pyrola, it is often called, although it belongs to a genus all its own. A boldly curved stalk, like a miniature Bo-peep crook, ..."

7. Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States by Asa Gray (1880)
"one-flowered pyrola. Petals 5, widely spreading, orbicular. Filaments awl-shaped, naked : anthers as in Pyrola, but conspicuously 2-horned. ..."

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