Lobelia Definition

lō-bēlē-ə, -bēlyə
lobelias
noun
Any of a genus (Lobelia) of annual or perennial plants of the bellflower family, having white, blue, or red flowers of very irregular shape.
Webster's New World
pronoun

A taxonomic genus within the family Campanulaceae "” the lobelias.

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Noun

Singular:
lobelia
Plural:
lobelias

Origin of Lobelia

  • New Latin Lobelia genus name after Matthias de Lobel (1538–1616), Flemish botanist and physician

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Lobelia Sentence Examples

  • In Vicia and Lobelia the hairs frequently form a tuft below the stigma.

  • Some of us planted blue lobelia for the sky.

  • Cardinal Flower (Lobelia Cardinalis) - The true plant is one of the rarest and one of the prettiest of the genus.

  • This Lobelia suffers from a kind of rust, which fastens on the main fleshy roots when the plants are at rest, and rots them.

  • Pratia - P. angulata is a pretty plant for the rock garden, creeping over the soil like the Fruiting Duckweed; the flowers white, and like a dwarf Lobelia, numerous in autumn, giving place to violet-colored berries about the size of Peas.

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Words Starting With

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Words Ending With

AIALIA

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Words Starting With L and Ending With A

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