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gerardia
The Collaborative International Dictionary
gerardia
gerardia \gerardia\ n. any plant of the genus Gerardia.
WordNet
gerardia
n. any plant of the genus Gerardia
Wikipedia
Gerardia (disambiguation)
Gerardia may refer to:
- Gerardia L., a plant genus now a synonym of Stenandrium in family Acanthaceae
- Gerardia Benth., a plant genus now a synonym of Micrargeria in family Orobanchaceae
- Gerardia Lacaze-Duthiers, 1864, a genus of cnidarians, now a synonym of Savalia
- Common names of several species of Agalinis formerly in Gerardia Benth., including:
- Agalinis acuta
- Agalinis auriculata
- Agalinis purpurea
- Agalinis skinneriana
- Agalinis tenuifolia
Usage examples of "gerardia".
The azaleas succeeded to the anemones, the orchis and trillium followed, then the yellow gerardias and the feathery purple pogonias, and finally the growing gleam of the golden-rods along the wood-side and the red umbels of the tall eupatoriums in the meadow announced the close of summer.
She had been in the fields with Janet, who had woven for her breeze-blown hair a wreath of the wild gerardia blossoms, whose purple beauty had reminded the good Scotchwoman of her own native heather.