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Definition of Cleome
1. Noun. Any of various often strong-smelling plants of the genus Cleome having showy spider-shaped flowers.
Group relationships: Genus Cleome
Specialized synonyms: Cleome Hassleriana, Spider Flower, Spider Plant, Cleome Serrulata, Rocky Mountain Bee Plant, Stinking Clover
Generic synonyms: Herb, Herbaceous Plant
2. Noun. Tropical and subtropical annual or perennial herbs or low shrubs.
Generic synonyms: Dilleniid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Caper Family, Capparidaceae, Family Capparidaceae
Member holonyms: Spiderflower
Definition of Cleome
1. a tropical plant [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cleome
Literary usage of Cleome
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Or, Flower-garden Displayed by John Sims (1816)
"For this, as it appears to us, undescribed species of cleome, we are indebted to
our friend ROBERT BARCLAY, ..."
2. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"cleome pungens Willd. Enum. Pl. 689. 1809. In waste places, southern New York to
... Fugitive or adventive from tropical America. Prickly cleome. Summer. ..."
3. The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Trinidad Hermenegildo Pardo de Tavera (1901)
"Its therapeutic properties are identical with those of the cleome ví-scosa. Dr.
Sir W. Jones believes that the plant possesses ..."
4. The Flower Garden: Or, Breck's Book of Flowers; in which are Described All by Joseph Breck (1856)
"cleome grandiflora is one of the most showy of the genus. It is easily raised
from seed, when planted in the open ground, in April or May, ..."
5. Catalogue of the African Plants by William Philip Hiern, Alfred Barton Rendle, Friedrich Martin Josef Welwitsch (1898)
"This plant is especially frequent about the fundas (caravan encampments) in
company with cleome and Psidium. There is a rapid transition from the ..."
6. New Manual of Botany of the Central Rocky Mountains (vascular Plants) by John Merle Coulter, Aven Nelson (1909)
"cleome lútea Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 70. 1830. Glabrous and more or less branched,
... cleome sonorae Gray, PI. Wright. 2: 16. 1853. Glabrous, erect, 3-6 dm. ..."
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