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Definition of Spiderworts
1. spiderwort [n] - See also: spiderwort
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spiderworts
Literary usage of Spiderworts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"The spiderworts are perennial, succulent, somewhat mucilaginous herbs, having
linear or lanceolate leaves and showy reddish or blue flowers in umbel-like ..."
2. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1881)
"Spots that in the spring were all pink and blue and white with anemones and wild
onions, in May are purple all day with spiderworts, and yellow all night ..."
3. Class-book of Botany: Being Outlines of the Structure, Physiology, and by Alphonso Wood (1873)
"spiderworts. Herbs with flat, narrow leaves which are usually sheathing at base.
Perianth of 2 series, tho outer of 3 herbaceous sepals, the inner of 3 ..."
4. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun, Francis Wall Oliver, Mary Frances (Ewart) Macdonald, Marian (Balfour) Busk (1895)
"The spiderworts (Tradescantia crassula, Virginica, &c.) have ephemeral flowers,
but they go on producing them for eight weeks, during the whole of which ..."
5. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun (1902)
"In the hermaphrodite flowers of the spiderworts (Tradescantia crassula, Virginica,
&c.), the anthers dehisce a considerable time before the stigmas mature. ..."
6. Baptist Missionary Magazine by Massachusetts Baptist Convention, American Baptist Foreign Mission Society (1854)
"... spiderworts creeping up the sides, half hidden by the bushes, like the violets
of northern 9 No. 5. climes ; and the waters were covered with ..."
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