Lexicographical Neighbors of Silkweeds
Literary usage of Silkweeds
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1880)
"In the June number, G. Engelman notices the vitality of the seeds of serotinous
cones, and EL Greene publishes notes on certain silkweeds. ..."
2. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Charles Robert Cross (1870)
"Among those which seem most promising are some of the " Asclepias" family,
popularly known as " milkweeds," " silkweeds," and so forth. ..."
3. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art. by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Wm Ripley Nichols, Charles R Cross (1871)
"Among those which seem most promising are some of the " Asclepias" family,
popularly known as " milkweeds," " silkweeds," and so forth. ..."
4. Introduction to Structural and Systematic Botany and Vegetable Physiology by Asa Gray (1875)
"It equally occurs in the juice of our Milkweeds or silkweeds. Gutta-Percha is a
similar product of the milky juice of a ..."
5. The Canadian Record of Science by Natural History Society of Montreal (1863)
"... of the Indian silk weed or mudar plant, a material precisely similar to the
floss contained in the pods of Canadian silkweeds. Mr. Rogers, the Librarian ..."
6. Elements of Zoölogy: A Textbook by Sanborn Tenney (1875)
"... a nest of fibrous materials—as those from the stalks of the silkweeds —
suspending the structure from the outermost twigs of the elm or other trees, ..."
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