Definitions for Linaria

Linaria li·nar·i·a

Spelling: [lahy-nair-ee-uh, li-]
IPA: /laɪˈnɛər i ə, lɪ-/

Linaria is a 7 letter English word.

You can make 96 anagrams from letters in Linaria (aaiilnr).

Definitions for Linaria

noun

  1. any of various plants belonging to the genus Linaria, of the figwort family, especially of the cultivated species, as L. maroccana or L. aeruginea, having slender clusters of spurred flowers in a variety of colors.

Origin of Linaria

1570-80; New Latin; Medieval Latin līnāria toadflax, equivalent to Latin līn(um) flax + -āria -ary

Examples for Linaria

linaria Cymbalaria, the ivy-leaved toadflax of English gardens.

The third species is linaria purpurea, not strictly a British plant, but one established in some places on old walls.

The occurrence both of regular and irregular peloria on the same plant has frequently been observed in linaria.

Naudin obtained the same result from crossing a peloric linaria with the common form.

My father had raised two beds of linaria vulgaris—one set being the offspring of cross and the other of self-fertilisation.

In linaria vulgaris Rœper observed a calyx consisting of a double series, each of five sepals, in conjunction with other changes.

He has given me a plant (linaria purpurea) from the tomb of Cicero.

It feeds in the flowers of yellow toadflax (linaria vulgaris), and may be reared on flowers of the snapdragon (Antirrhinum).

Lastly, linaria produces two kinds of peloric flowers, one having simple petals, and the other having them all spurred.

A plant which on the top of a stone wall is very pretty, "linaria vulgaris," has proved a veritable plague to me in the garden.

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