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Definition of Picotee
1. n. A variety of carnation having petals of a light color variously dotted and spotted at the edges.
Definition of Picotee
1. Noun. A variety of decorative carnation. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Picotee
1. a variety of carnation [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Picotee
Literary usage of Picotee
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Garden: An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Gardening in All Its Branches by William Robinson, Esther Baldwin York (1903)
"a striped flower, and the picotee is an edged one. Is there '* no difference "
perceptible here 1 A flower in the " self," or one-coloured class, ..."
2. The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and (1853)
"The Cultivation of the Carnation and picotee. OUR gardens cannot boast of a more
beautiful flower than the carnation in its present highly improved and ..."
3. Carnations, Picotees, and the Wild and Garden Pinks by Ernest Thomas Cook (1905)
"CHAPTER IV THE picotee—WHITE AND YELLOW GROUND By JAMES DOUGLAS IT may be as well
... It may be seventy or eighty years since the white ground picotee had ..."
4. Every Woman Her Own Flower Gardener: A Handy Manual of Flower Gardening for by Sophia Orne Johnson (1874)
"... CHAPTER XL THE CARNATION, AND picotee PINKS. " Te are the Scriptures of the
earth, Sweet flowers, fair and frail; A sermon speaks in every bud, ..."
5. Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants by Joseph Paxton (1849)
"It is enough to state that a few years since the Yellow picotee was considered
all but inadmissible to the amateur's collection ; whether from its apparent ..."
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