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Definition of Dendrobium
1. Noun. A plant of the genus Dendrobium having stems like cane and usually showy racemose flowers.
Definition of Dendrobium
1. Noun. (botany) Any plant of the genus ''Dendrobium''. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dendrobium
Literary usage of Dendrobium
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants by Sir Joseph Paxton (1843)
"But beyond this, I can find nothing that differs from dendrobium ; and as the
three first characters arc merely of habit, the last can hardly be regarded of ..."
2. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and ...by Liberty Hyde Bailey by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"Related to dendrobium, and much like it in fl.-structure.—Species about 20, in
the Malay Penins. and adjacent islands, and in the Trop. Himalayas. ..."
3. The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and by C M Hovey (1866)
"Backhouse of York, England, last year, in April. {Bot. Mag., March.) 887. dendrobium
... Rchb. DOUBLE-TINTED YELLOW dendrobium. (Orchidaceae.) Moulmein. ..."
4. The Various Contrivances by which Orchids are Fertilized by Insects by Charles Darwin (1877)
"The produced anterior lip of the anther (see A) almost entirely covers the upper
surface of the rostellum. The fila- Fig. 21. dendrobium CHRYSANTHUM. a. ..."
5. Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society by Royal Horticultural Society (Great Britain). (1895)
"Mr. W. Stevens), for a finely flowered pseudo-bulb of dendrobium ... Miss Harris,
Lamberhurst, showed three finely flowered dendrobium x ..."
6. Gardeners Chronicle, the Horticultural Trade Journal (1897)
"... miny forms of dendrobium nobile were noted, including a grand D. n. nubili us
... dendrobium x rubens was obtained by Mr. Jas, Cypher by crossing D. x ..."
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