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Webster 1913 Edition
Marsdenia
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Mars-de′ni-a
,p
rop.
Noun.
[NL. From W.
Marsden
, an English author.] (Bot.)
A genus of plants of the Milkweed family, mostly woody climbers with fragrant flowers, several species of which furnish valuable fiber, and one species (
Marsdenia tinctoria
) affords indigo. Definition 2024
marsdenia
marsdenia
See also: Marsdenia
English
Noun
marsdenia (plural marsdenias)
- (botany) Any of the genus Marsdenia of apocynaceous plants.
- 1872, Matilda Mary Pollard, The miner's son, and Margaret Vernon (page 194)
- The odour of the 'Madagascar chaplet-flower' came floating out, mingled with the fragrant scents of the marsdenias, and the sloping shelves were one mass of varied bloom.
- 1872, Matilda Mary Pollard, The miner's son, and Margaret Vernon (page 194)