Dicentran.
/dʌɪˈsɛntrə/ Botany.
A genus of plants (family Fumariaceæ) having drooping heart-shaped flowers; the species are natives of North America and Eastern and central Asia, and several are in cultivation in the flower-garden, esp. D. spectabilis (also called Dielytra).
ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > poppy and allied flowers > allied flowers
poppyOE
horned poppy1548
yellow poppy1548
sea poppy1562
garden poppy1577
wind-rose1597
prickly poppy1648
squatmore1691
oriental poppy1731
Welsh poppy1731
infernal fig1760
Mexican poppy1811
Meconopsis1836
redcap1846
horn-poppy1851
squirrel-corn1856
eschscholtzia1857
dielytra1864
Dicentra1866
yellow thistle1866
turkey-corn1884
Shirley poppy1886
1866 in J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot.
1883 Cent. Mag. Sept. 726/2 The beautifully divided leaves of the dicentra.
1884 E. P. Roe in Harper's Mag. May 932/1 Clumps of bloodroot, hepaticas, dicentras, dog-tooth violets, and lilies-of-the-valley.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
<
n.1866- fair-eyed
- fair-face
- fair-faced
- fair-farrand
- fair-fashioned
- fair-featured
- fair-filed
- fair-flowing
- fair-folded
- fair-forged
- fair-going
- fair-grass
- fair-growing
- fair-hair
- fair-haired
- fair-haired boy
- fair-haired hyacinth
- fair-handed
- fair-in-sight
- fair-like
- fair-minded
- fair-mindedly
- fair-mindedness
- fair-natured
- fair-place