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Definition of Shad-flower
1. Noun. Annual weed of Europe and North America having a rosette of basal leaves and tiny flowers followed by oblong seed capsules.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shad-flower
Literary usage of Shad-flower
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge edited by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1884)
"Shad flower, IX. 713, 2 b. Shad fly, referred to, XIV. 807, 1 c. SHADDOCK, tree
and fruit, XIV. 808 (ill.). Shade» of Death, forest so called, XIII. ..."
2. Flora Cestrica: An Attempt to Enumerate and Describe the Flowering and by William Darlington (1837)
"Vulgo—Wild Service-berry. June berry. Snowy Medlar. shad-flower. ¡•Him S to 15
or 20 feel high, with rather slender distant branches, forming an open top. ..."
3. The American Cyclopædia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1874)
"In some parts of the country the different varieties are known as shad flower or
shad bash, as the flowers appear at the time the shad ascends the streams, ..."
4. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste by Luther Tucker (1873)
"Almost every one knows the common June-berry or shad-flower, a shrub or small
tree conspicuous all over the country in April and May, with its racemes of ..."
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