Definition of Common unicorn plant

1. Noun. Annual of southern United States to Mexico having large whitish or yellowish flowers mottled with purple and a long curving beak.

Exact synonyms: Common Devil's Claw, Devil's Claw, Elephant-tusk, Proboscidea Louisianica, Proboscis Flower, Ram's Horn
Generic synonyms: Herb, Herbaceous Plant
Group relationships: Genus Proboscidea, Proboscidea

Lexicographical Neighbors of Common Unicorn Plant

common starling
common stinkhorn
common stock
common stock equivalent
common stocks
common sunflower
common tarweed
common teasel
common tendinous ring
common thorn apple
common thyme
common time
common tobacco
common topaz
common touch
common unicorn plant (current term)
common valerian
common variable immunodeficiency
common vehicle spread
common vetchling
common viper
common vole
common voles
common wallaby
common wart
common wasp
common water snake
common watercress
common wheat
common white dogwood

Literary usage of Common unicorn plant

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

1. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1876)
"... Linn., the common Unicorn-plant, sometimes cultivated in gardens, is not unlikely to occur in California as an introduced plant. ..."

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