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nemesia|nəˈmiːʒ(ɪ)ə|
[mod.L. (E. P. Ventenat Jardin de la Malmaison (1803) 41), f. Gr. νεµέσιον a name used by Dioscurides for a similar plant.]
An annual or perennial herb of the genus so called, native to southern Africa, belonging to the family Scrophulariaceæ, and usually bearing racemes of flowers of various colours.
1815F. Pursh Donn's Hortus Cantabrigiensis (ed. 8) 196 Nemesia, [English name] Nemesia. Germander-leav. [sic]. 1829J. C. Loudon Encycl. Plants 526 Nemesia, Vent[enat. English name] Nemesia{ddd}fœtid{ddd}horned. 1838Edwards's Bot. Reg. XXIV. 39 (heading) Many-flowered Nemesia. 1892Gardeners' Chron. 3 Sept. 269/3 There are many plants that vary to the extent of two or three colours in a wild state, but it is exceedingly rare to find them indulging in such wholesale variation as this Nemesia does. I have seen sixteen varieties of colour. 1927Observer 20 Mar. 24/3 Modern florists and men of science..have made a rainbow out of a single colour (as in the nemesia). 1949L. G. Green In Land of Afternoon v. 72 Hybrid gladioli, nemesias, even the Hottentot fig, were all startling novelties. 1970C. Lloyd Well-Tempered Garden ii. 97 There is a freshness about a display of nemesias. |