Definition of Adenium

1. Noun. One species: succulent shrub or tree of tropical Africa and Arabia.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Adenium

Adelges abietis
Adelges piceae
Adelgidae
Adelie
Adelie penguin
Adelie penguins
Adeline
Adeline Virginia Stephen Woolf
Adelman
Aden
Aden-Abyan Islamic Army
Aden ulcer
Adenanthera
Adenanthera pavonina
Adenauer
Adenium (current term)
Adenium multiflorum
Adenium obesum
Adenophorasida
Adenota
Adenota vardoni
Ades
Adessenarian
Adessenarians
Adey
Adgarley
Adhola
Adi
Adi-Buddha
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Literary usage of Adenium

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

1. The Unknown Horn of Africa: An Exploration from Berbera to the Leopard River by Frank Linsly James, James Godfrey Thrupp (1888)
"... of a plant affording an arrow-poison, which I identify with Adenium ... and in the Adenium we have a second poisonous species used for the same purpose. ..."

2. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1861)
"... Adenium obesum, with its almost globular fleshy trunk, naked branchlets bearing a tuft of leaves and an umbel of beautiful flowers ; Moringa ..."

3. Botanisches Zentralblatt: Referierendes Organ für das Gesamtgebiet der Botanik by Botanischer Verein in München, Deutsche Botanische Gesellschaft, Berlin (1908)
"L'absence d'aiguillons ne paraît pas aux auteurs un caractère suffisant pour séparer les Adenium des Pachypodium : tandis que certains Adenium ont des ..."

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