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Definition of Loasa
1. Noun. Any of various perennial South American plants of the genus Loasa having stinging hairs and showy white or yellow or reddish-orange flowers.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Loasa
Literary usage of Loasa
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse by Edward Step (1897)
"The species are restricted to tropical America. Very few of the species are known
in gardens, and all are of recent introduction. loasa ..."
2. The Flower Garden: Or, Breck's Book of Flowers; in which are Described All by Joseph Breck (1856)
"loasa. A curious genus, mostly annuals, remarkable for the beauty of their singular
... Brick-red loasa. — It is a native of South America ; a climber, ..."
3. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"loasa FAMILY. hairs, with alternate or opposite exstipulate leaves, and solitary
racemose or Erect or climbing branching herbs, often armed with hooked ..."
4. The Elements of Botany for Beginners and for Schools by Asa Gray (1887)
"... loasa FAMILY. Herbs with rough pubescence, and some with stinging bristles,
no stipules ; a 1-celled ovary coherent with the tube of the calyx (which is ..."
5. The Ladies Flower-garden of Ornamental Annuals by Loudon (Jane) (1842)
"The loasa lateritia may be trained in many different ways. ... From this plant
our specimen was taken, and the species is called loasa aurantiaca in our ..."
6. The British Flower Garden: Containing Coloured Figures and Descriptions of ...by Robert Sweet by Robert Sweet (1838)
"... segments of the calyx, remain permanent throughout, so that we are inclined
to think even loasa Placet will prove only another form of this species. ..."
7. Field, Forest, and Garden Botany: A Simple Introduction to the Common Plants by Asa Gray (1895)
"... loasa FAMILY. Herbs with rough pubescence, and some with stinging bristles,
no stipules; a 1-celled ovary coherent with the tube of the calyx (which is ..."
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