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forsythia
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Forsythia \For*syth"i*a\, a. [NL. Named after William Forsyth, who brought in from China.] (Bot.) A shrub of the Olive family, with yellow blossoms.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1814, coined 1805 in Modern Latin as a genus name in honor of William Forsyth (1737-1804), Scottish horticulturalist who brought the shrub from China. The family name is from Gaelic Fearsithe "man of peace."
Wiktionary
n. Any of several shrubs, of the genus ''Forsythia'', native to Asia and Eastern Europe, that are cultivated for their yellow flowers, which bloom in early spring.
WordNet
n. any of various early blooming oleaceous shrubs of the genus Forsythia; native to eastern Asia and southern Europe but widely cultivated for their branches of bright yellow bell-shaped flowers
Wikipedia
Forsythia ( or ) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Oleaceae (olive family). There are about 11 species, mostly native to eastern Asia, but one native to southeastern Europe. The common name is also forsythia; the genus is named after William Forsyth.
Forsythia may refer to:
- Forsythia, a plant genus belonging to the Oleaceae (Olive family)
- "Forsythia", a song by Veruca Salt from their 1994 album American Thighs
-
, a US Coast Guard river tender
- Forsythia (flying squirrel), a fossil flying squirrel
Usage examples of "forsythia".
Bill Corde pressed toward the paper through a tangle of juniper and maple saplings and stubborn runners of forsythia.
Forsythia and spirea sprawled across the grass, and a gnarled old apple tree had flung itself into an extravagance of frothy bloom, as if it knew this might be its final outburst.
The crocuses had come and gone, as had the forsythia blossoms, but patches of yellow daffodils remained, and tulips were starting to bloom.
Stocking-capped gnomes peeked through the forsythias, their mischievous faces still as stone.
It was partly hidden by the sprawling forsythia, but I had no problem recognizing the dent in the hood and the bumper sticker that inquired if you had hugged your cosmetologist lately.
Shrubs give us a variety of flowers all year: winter-flowering cherry, heather, forsythia - that magical shrub that brightens up the most boring patches in the garden on cold wintry days.
It was, Mavis had explained to him in advance, the weekly Agape Ludens, or Love Feast Game, of the Discordians, and the dining hall was newly bedecked with pornographic and psychedelic posters, Christian and Buddhist and Amerindian mystic designs, balloons and lollypops dangling from the ceiling on Day-Glo-dabbed strings, numinous paintings of Discordian saints (including Norton I, Sigismundo Malatesta, Guillaume of Aquitaine, Chuang Chou, Judge Roy Bean, various historical figures even more obscure, and numerous gorillas and dolphins), bouquets of roses and forsythia and gladiolas and orchids, clusters of acorns and gourds, and the inevitable proliferation of golden apples, pentagons and octopi.
The shaggy golden suds of blooming forsythia glow through the smoke that fogs the garden while Rabbit burns rakings of crumpled stalks, perished grass, oak leaves shed in the dark privacy of winter, and rosebud prunings that cling together in infuriating ankle-clawing clumps.
Everywhere the forsythia and pussywillow were in bloom, as well as the shallow bushes along the riverbank, and the air became suddenly flush with spring.
Foster had been recalcitrant, pointing out that the forsythia would have to go and the weigela, and them there lilacs, but Gwenda had been adamant, and he was now almost enthusiastic about his task.