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Lunaria (common name honesty) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Brassicaceae, native to central and southern Europe. It includes 4 species, the annual or biennial L. annua ( syn. L. biennis), Lunaria elongata, the perennial L. rediviva and the rare Balkan species Lunaria telekiana
The Latin name Lunaria means "moon-like" and refers to the decorative seedpods.
They have hairy toothed leaves and terminal racemes of white or violet flowers in Spring and Summer, followed by prominent, translucent, disc-shaped seedpods, which are frequently seen in flower arrangements.
They are widely grown as ornamental plants in gardens, and have become naturalised in many temperate areas away from their native habitat.
Usage examples of "lunaria".
The frightened satchel-man had space to brood on the story then current in the city, that the Master of the Ten Mechanicae had taken for his mistress the most famous whore this side the northern ocean, and that Lunaria Vaimian ruled Subyrus as if he were a toothless lion, ordering him to this and that, demanding costly gifts, setting him errands, and even in the matter of the bedchamber, herself saying when.
A stranger, he had never seen Lunaria for himself, nor, till tonight, the magician-lord.
This was the aspect of the fire which Subyrus used to recall Lunaria to him.
In response to these gifts, Lunaria Vaimian admitted Subyrus to her couch.
But this -perverse, oblique, its potential elusive but limitless - it resembled Lunaria herself.
Here Lunaria, honouring her name, made bright the dark, turning night into day with lamplight, singing, drums, harps and rattles.
And with those, an intoxication, such as Lunaria had witnessed in him the first night he had seen her, the first night she had refused him.
He had sought a gift for Lunaria, then he had sought to trap her in the crystal, making her irrevocably his property and denying himself of her for ever.
But, more, he had been on the teams that had assaulted the Albanian town of Lunaria and fought four times their number of Albanian defenders to a bloody standstill.
Qamariya, the people of Lunaria lived in modest conditions, with small mud and straw houses, simple lifestyles, and close families.
Everywhere he rode in southern Lunaria, he witnessed more destitute and impoverished people, lying in streets or begging him for food as he rode by them.
Shortly after that, on our way to Lunaria, your father, the king, approached us with his knights.
The city of Lunaria burst into flames, as every one of the rebel horsemen fell, and their swordsmen were pinned between the fire and the knights.
Messengers were sent from Lunaria to intercept traveling Jabalian troops and inform them of the agreement to form the alliance.
Two thousand had joined the troops in Lunaria, and every moment, more arrived from the surrounding southern cities.