Definition of Southern magnolia

1. Noun. Evergreen tree of southern United States having large stiff glossy leaves and huge white sweet-smelling flowers.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Southern Magnolia

southern blue flag
southern bog lemming
southern bottlenose whale
southern bottlenose whales
southern buckthorn
southern cypress
southern elephant seal
southern elephant seals
southern flounder
southern flying squirrel
southern harebell
southern hemisphere
southern lights
southern live oak
southern magnolia (current term)
southern maidenhair
southern porgy
southern red cedar
southern red oak
southern screamer
southern screamers
southern scup
southern spadefoot
southern spatterdock
southern vole
southern voles
southern white cedar
southern yellow pine
southernism

Literary usage of Southern magnolia

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

1. Biltmore Nursery, Biltmore, N.C. (1907)
"southern magnolia. A stately pyramidal tree with short, spreading or ascending ... The hardiest form of the southern magnolia and the one likely to be most ..."

2. Pathogens of Soybean Seeds: Bibliographyby Andrew Kalinski by Andrew Kalinski (1994)
"... of southern magnolia and Bar Harbor Juniper Grown in Containers in Composted Hardwood Bark-Shale. J. Amer. STEVENS, CD 1980. Influence of Fertilizer and ..."

3. Plant Names, Scientific and Popular, Including in the Case of Each Plant the by Albert Brown Lyons (1900)
"Southeastern US southern magnolia, Large-flowered Magnolia,. Laurel-leaved Tulip-tree, Bull Bay. c. ..."

4. Transactions of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society.: Horticultural Hall by Massachusetts Horticultural Society, W.D. Ticknor & Co, James Englebert Teschemacher (1879)
"Doubtless, you know the half-hardy southern Magnolia fuscata. If you do, you may conceive something of the degree of sweetness of Magnolia parviflora. ..."

5. Slavery in the United States: A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of by Charles Ball, Fisher (1854)
"Here also, I first observed groves of the most beautiful of all the trees of the wood—the great southern magnolia, or Green Bay. No adequate conception can ..."

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