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‖ Colutea Bot.|kəˈl(j)uːtiːə|
[L., ad. Gr. κολουτέα (also κολοιτέα), name of a pod-bearing tree in Theophrastus.]
A genus of shrubs with papilionaceous flowers and bladder-like pods, hence called Bladder-senna; a yellow-flowered species (C. arborescens) is grown in England.
1664Evelyn Kal. Hort. (1729) 227 Least patient of cold, Colutea Odorata. 1712tr. Pomet's Hist. Drugs I. 86 The Bastard Sena is the Colutea, or Wild Sena. 1736–7Mrs. Delany Autobiog. & Corr. (1861) I. 586 [She] dies with impatience for the colutea-seed you promised her. 1794Martyn Rousseau's Bot. English Names..Colutea. |