单词 | amorpha |
释义 | amorpha (once / 303060 pages) n WORD FAMILY amorpha: amorphas USAGE EXAMPLESAmorpha, a-mor′fa, n. a genus of North American shrubs of the bean family, the false indigoes or lead-plants—also bastard or wild indigo. Various, Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictio...(2011) The larvae feed on species of Amorpha and are believed to be three-brooded in southern regions where the butterfly occurs. Weed, Clarence M., Butterflies Worth Knowing(2011) In Amorpha and Afzelia the corolla is reduced to a single petal, and in some other Leguminous plants it is entirely wanting. Various, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edit...(2011) n any plant of the genus Amorpha having odd-pinnate leaves and purplish spicate flowers Hypo|Hyper Amorpha canescens, lead plant, leadplant shrub of sandy woodlands and stream banks of western United States having hoary pinnate flowers and dull-colored racemose flowers; thought to indicate the presence of lead ore Amorpha californica, bastard indigo, false indigoan erect to spreading hairy shrub of the Pacific coast of the United States having racemes of red to indigo flowers Amorpha fruticosa, bastard indigo, false indigodense shrub of moist riverbanks and flood plains of the eastern United States having attractive fragrant foliage and dense racemes of dark purple flowers bush, shrub a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems |
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