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Definition of Monotropa
1. Noun. Leafless fleshy saprophytic plants; in some classifications placed in the family Pyrolaceae.
Generic synonyms: Dilleniid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Family Monotropaceae, Monotropaceae
Member holonyms: Indian Pipe, Monotropa Uniflora, Waxflower, False Beachdrops, Monotropa Hypopithys, Pinesap
Definition of Monotropa
1. n. A genus of parasitic or saprophytic plants including the Indian pipe and pine sap. The name alludes to the dropping end of the stem.
Medical Definition of Monotropa
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Monotropa
Literary usage of Monotropa
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Botany; Or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with Their Essential by Sir James Edward Smith, James Sowerby (1807)
"monotropa hypopithys. Lmn. Sp.Pl. $$$. Hudf. Fl . An. i75. ... Mrs. Kett of
Seething, in a pine grove at Stoke near Norwich, in which fpot the monotropa was ..."
2. The Moth Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Moths of North America by William Jacob Holland (1903)
"Genus SELENIS Guenee The only species of the genus which occurs within our borders
is monotropa Grote. It is found in Texas. The annexed FIG. 166. ..."
3. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"monotropa. The condition is quite similar in the allied monotropa, which, however,
does not produce foliage-leaves. Whilst shoots above- ground die down ..."
4. The Phytologist: A Popular Botanical Miscellany edited by George Luxford, Edward Newman (1843)
"Notes on monotropa. It may not be amiss to make a few more observations on monotropa.
The description of the root of M. Hypopitys in ' English Botany,' t. ..."
5. Botany of the United States North of Virginia: Comprising Descriptions of by Lewis Caleb Beck (1848)
"monotropa. Linn.—Bird's Nest. (From the Greek paras, one, ... monotropa. Nutt.
2. M. uniflora Linn.: stem smooth, 1-flowered; flower with 10 stamens erect ..."
6. English Botany, Or, Coloured Figures of British Plants by James Sowerby, John Thomas Boswell, Phebe Lankester, John William Salter (1866)
"SPECIES I.-monotropa HYPOPITYS. ... and not u part of the monotropa (Phyt. Ser.
I. Vol. I. p. ... monotropa ..."
7. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1866)
"... colourless substance contained in the plant, the cut surfaces of the plant
assuming a violet colour only on exposure. Colouring matter of^ monotropa ..."
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