Definition of Carolina allspice

1. Noun. Hardy shrub of southeastern United States having clove-scented wood and fragrant red-brown flowers.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Carolina Allspice

Carnivore
Carnosaura
Carnot
Carnot's ideal cycle
Carnot cycle
Carnoy
Carnoy's fixative
Caro
Carol
Carole
Carolean
Carolene
Caroli
Carolina
Carolina allspice (current term)
Carolina buckthorn
Carolina chickadee
Carolina hemlock
Carolina jasmine
Carolina lupine
Carolina moonseed
Carolina parakeet
Carolina pink
Carolina pinks
Carolina pond fern
Carolina spring beauty
Carolina wren
Carolina wrens
Carolinas

Literary usage of Carolina allspice

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

1. Flora of the Southern United States: Containing an Abridged Description of by Alvan Wentworth Chapman (1897)
"(CAROLINA-ALLSPICE FAMILY.) Shrubs, with opposite and entire leaves, without stipules or pellucid dots. — Sepals and petals numerous and alike, united below ..."

2. The Flower Garden, Or, Breck's Book of Flowers: In which are Described All by Joseph Breck (1858)
"Carolina allspice. — This is a well- known species, from three to five feet high, flowering from June to August. There are also a number of other species, ..."

3. Botany for Young People and Common Schools: How Plants Grow, a Simple by Asa Gray (1880)
"CAROLINA-ALLSPICE FAMILY. ... ot' a few rather curious shrubs, with opposite leaves; represented by the Carolina-Allspice. ... branch of Carolina allspice. ..."

4. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner Von Marilaun (1902)
"The Receptacle of the flower is not infrequently a conspicuous feature in connection with the fruit. This is well shown in the Carolina allspice, in Roses, ..."

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