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Vulgare

Vulgare, a Latin adjective meaning common, may refer to:

  • Armadillidium vulgare, the (common) pill-bug or (common) pill woodlouse, a widespread woodlouse species found in Europe
  • Astrocaryum vulgare, the tucumã-do-Pará in Brazil, aouara in French Guiana or awarra in Suriname, a palm species native to the Amazon
  • Cirsium vulgare, species of the genus Cirsium, native throughout most of Europe, western Asia, and northwestern Africa
  • Echium vulgare, a species of flowering plant in the borage family Boraginaceae
  • Foeniculum vulgare, fennel, a flowering plant species in the carrot family that has become widely naturalized in many parts of the world
  • Hordeum vulgare, barley, a member of the grass family, a major cereal grain
  • Leucanthemum vulgare, the oxeye daisy, a widespread flowering plant species
  • Ligustrum vulgare, the wild privet, a plant species
  • Marrubium vulgare, a flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae, native to Europe, northern Africa, and southwestern and central Asia
  • Origanum vulgare, oregano, a common species of Origanum, a genus of the mint family (Lamiaceae)
  • Polypodium vulgare, the common polypody, a fern species
  • Polystigma vulgare, a synonym for Bionectria ochroleuca
  • Sorghum vulgare, a synonym for Sorghum bicolor, a grass species cultivated for its grain, which is used for food and ethanol production
    • Sorghum × drummondii, a hybrid-derived species of grass raised for forage and grain, native to tropical and subtropical regions of Eastern Africa
  • Tanacetum vulgare, tansy, a perennial, herbaceous flowering plant of the aster family, native to temperate Europe and Asia

Usage examples of "vulgare".

After twenty years continuous labour he found himself capable of the vulgarest, coarsest faults and failings from which the remotest skiey influence in his begetting might have saved him.

O artis inaestimabilis virtus quae dum se dicit ludere, naturae praevalet secreta vulgare.

She could not even defend her honesty, her honour in the vulgarest sense of the word, without involving herself in a kind of falsehood, which was desolation to her spirit.

XXIV Time is money--says the vulgarest saw known to any age or people.

I had rather have had the vulgarest Anglo-Saxon name than this Jewish one.

MAY-FLOWER--of Delft Haven-- poor, common-looking ship, hired by common charter-party for coined dollars,--caulked with mere oakum and tar, provisioned with vulgarest biscuit and bacon,--yet what ship Argo or miraculous epic ship, built by the sea gods, was other than a foolish bumbarge in comparison!

She makes the vulgarest limericks ever recited within these chaste walls.

AY-FLOWER--of Delft Haven-- poor, common-looking ship, hired by common charter-party for coined dollars,--caulked with mere oakum and tar, provisioned with vulgarest biscuit and bacon,--yet what ship Argo or miraculous epic ship, built by the sea gods, was other than a foolish bumbarge in comparison!

AY-FLOWER--of Delft Haven --poor, common-looking ship, hired by common charter-party for coined dollars,--caulked with mere oakum and tar, provisioned with vulgarest biscuit and bacon,--yet what ship Argo or miraculous epic ship, built by the sea gods, was other than a foolish bumbarge in comparison!

Borage was sometimes called Bugloss by the old herbalists, a name that properly belongs to Anchusa officinalis, the Alkanet, the Small Bugloss being Lycopsis arvensis, and Viper's Bugloss being the popular name for Echium vulgare.

She had given herself to Darrow, and concealed the episode from Owen Leath, with no more apparent sense of debasement than the vulgarest of adventuresses.