Crossword clues for pachysandra
The Collaborative International Dictionary
pachysandra \pachysandra\ n. (Bot.) Any plant of the genus Pachysandra; they are low-growing evergreen herbs or subshrubs having dentate leaves and used as ground cover.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. (context botany English) A genus, ''Pachysandra'', of four or five species of evergreen shrubs or subshrubs, belonging to the boxwood family, Buxaceae, used ornamentally as groundcover.
WordNet
n. any plant of the genus Pachysandra; low-growing evergreen herbs or subshrubs having dentate leaves and used as ground cover
Wikipedia
Pachysandra is a genus of five species of evergreen perennials or subshrubs, belonging to the boxwood family Buxaceae. The species are native to eastern Asia and southeast North America, some reaching a height of , with only weakly woody stems. The leaves are alternate, leathery, with an entire to coarsely toothed margin, and are typically long. The small uni-sexual blooms are greenish-white and produced in late spring or early summer.
The name is derived from the Greek words pachys ("thick") and andros ("male") which is a reference to the thick stamens (the male portion of the flower).
Usage examples of "pachysandra".
Then she sat back and admired the pachysandra she had planted and pruned over the years, and beyond that, the impatiens, and beyond that, the lilies.
Russian olive trees that he had planted in a sea of pachysandra, or the shag carpet of juniper, or the dogwood.
Now lush groundcovers such as bunchberry and pachysandra alternate with elaborate topiary displays.
The ground was covered with pachysandra, and the air smelled of pine cones.
He looked at the old woman and the big house and the spreading pachysandra and the roses growing along the terrace and he thought that maybe it would all work out, that the little girl could grow up here.
And the house that seemed to crouch between them had no lawn anymore, eitherjust a tangle of heat-blanched goatsfoot and crabgrass and a single incredibly stubborn patch of dusty, wilted pachysandra that had refused to die even though no one ever watered it now.
Looking out into the garden, Nathan remembers having taken this apartment for the exuberance of its growth, the little ordered rows of pachysandra and hyacinth, its brave stand against the perpetual shade between the buildings.
But they looked the same and so did the dense spread of pachysandra that did service as lawn around her house.
He hoisted himself out of the shaft and low-crawled through the trailing pachysandra until he reached the base of the flagpole, then rolled over on his back.
He dropped her willowy figure, face up, into a patch of black-eyed Susans and pachysandra, out of sight of the neighbors.
I planted that pachysandra, those sweet olives, and I never felt anything strange before.
In front of her on a taut chain leash, a perky young Irish setterbought earlier that evening in White Plainsexcitedly sniffed its first bed of pachysandra and relieved itself on the leafy plants.
Now lush groundcovers such as bunchberry and pachysandra alternate with elaborate topiary displays.
And the house that seemed to crouch between them had no lawn anymore, eitherjust a tangle of heat-blanched goatsfoot and crabgrass and a single incredibly stubborn patch of dusty, wilted pachysandra that had refused to die even though no one ever watered it now.
Hammer had liriope grass, periwinkles, pansies, yucca, ligustrum hedges, and pachysandra.