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Rhamnus   Listen
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Rhamnus  n.  (Bot.) A genus of shrubs and small trees; buckthorn. The California Rhamnus Purshianus and the European Rhamnus catharticus are used in medicine. The latter is used for hedges.






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... RHAMNUS ALATERNUS.—Mediterranean region, 1629. This is an evergreen shrub, with lanceolate shining leaves of a dark glossy-green colour, and pretty flowers produced from March till June. There are several well-marked ...
— Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs • A. D. Webster

... the people of Rhamnus, who had a temple dedicated to that goddess, and made a condition that it should never be set up in Athens. In the museum of the Lateran at Rome there is a small but very beautiful antique statue of Nemesis, which is thought to be a copy of this famous ...
— A History of Art for Beginners and Students - Painting, Sculpture, Architecture • Clara Erskine Clement



Words linked to "Rhamnus" :   Rhamnus carolinianus, family Rhamnaceae, magnoliopsid genus, dicot genus, Rhamnus frangula, genus Rhamnus, buckthorn, Rhamnaceae, Rhamnus purshianus, Rhamnus californicus, buckthorn family, Rhamnus croceus



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