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Definition of False lupine
1. Noun. Western United States bushy herb having yellow pea-like flowers.
Lexicographical Neighbors of False Lupine
Literary usage of False lupine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons (1906)
"The false lupine very closely resembles the true lupines, but may be distinguished
from them by the stamens, which are all distinct, instead of being united ..."
2. The Land of Little Rain by Mary Hunter Austin (1903)
"I am sure we make too free use of this word false in naming plants — false mallow,
false lupine, and the like. The asphodel is at least no falsifier, ..."
3. Arizona, the Wonderland: The History of Its Ancient Cliff and Cave Dwellings by George Wharton James (1917)
"... called the buck-bean (Thermopsis Montana), often called the false lupine.
It is a very handsome, ..."
4. A Flora of Western Middle California by Willis Linn Jepson (1911)
"Foothills of the Sierra Nevada and inner Coast Ranges. Mar.-Apr. 2. THERMOPSIS E.
Br. false lupine. Perennial herbs with commonly erect clustered stems. ..."
5. G.T.T.: Or, The Wonderful Adventures of a Pullman by Edward Everett Hale (1877)
"Then I shall put in purple lupine and false lupine here." " Put in what you choose.
You already see the radical error of Ransom's system. ..."
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