Definition of Froelichia

1. Noun. Genus of erect or procumbent herbs of the Americas having spikes of woolly white flowers: cottonweed.

Exact synonyms: Genus Froelichia
Generic synonyms: Caryophylloid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Amaranth Family, Amaranthaceae, Family Amaranthaceae
Member holonyms: Cottonweed

Lexicographical Neighbors of Froelichia

Fritz W. Meissner
Fritzes
Friuli
Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Friulian
Friulians
Frizell
Frobenius number
Frobenius numbers
Frobisher
Frobisher Bay
Frodo
Froebel
Froehde
Froehde's reagent
Froelichia
Frohlich
Frohlich's dwarfism
Frohn
Frohn's reagent
Froin
Froin's syndrome
Fromase
Froment
Froment's sign
Fromental Halevy
Frommel
Frommian
Fromowitz

Literary usage of Froelichia

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

1. New Manual of Botany of the Central Rocky Mountains (vascular Plants) by John Merle Coulter (1909)
"froelichia Moench Erect woolly от silky annuals. with narrow opposite leaves, ... froelichia ..."

2. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1896)
"froelichia Moench, Meth. 5o. 1794. Annual, erect woolly or silky, branching or simple ... froelichia Floridana Moq. in DC. Prodr. 13: Part 2, 42o. 1849. ..."

3. Proceedings of the Davenport Academy of Sciences by Davenport Academy of Sciences (1899)
"Cycloloma, Moquin. Winged Pigweed. 662. C. platyphyllum, Moquin. Usually found with froelichia. Chenopodium, Tourn. 663. ..."

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