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Evergreen twining shrubs of Americas and southeastern Asia
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gelsemium
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Any of several flowering plants, of the genus (taxlink Gelsemium genus noshow=1), many of which are poisonous.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gelsemium \Gel*se"mium\, n. [NL., fr. It. gelsomino jasmine.] (Bot.) A genus of climbing plants. The yellow (false) jasmine ( Gelsemium sempervirens ) is a native of the Southern United States. It has showy and deliciously fragrant flowers. (Med.) The root ...
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Gelsemium is an Asian and North American genus of flowering plants belonging to family Gelsemiaceae . The genus contains three species of shrubs to straggling or twining climbers. Two species are native to North America , and one to China and Southeast ...
Usage examples of gelsemium.
Similar roots of Jasmine, especially those of Jasminum fruticans, are sometimes intermixed, and can be distinguished by the absence of indurated pith cells, which occur in Gelsemium, by the abundance of thin-walled starch cells in the pith and in the medullary ray cells (those of Gelsemium being thickwalled and destitute of starch), and by the bast fibres round the sieve tubes.