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Clintonia

noun
1.
Any temperate liliaceous plant of the genus Clintonia having broad basal leaves and white or yellowish or purplish flowers followed by blue or black berries.  Synonym: Clinton's lily.



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"Clintonia" Quotes from Famous Books



... coming from the South to commence with; for many plants which are rather rare, and one or two which are not found at all, in the eastern part of Massachusetts, grew abundantly between the rails,—as Labrador tea, kalmia glauca, Canada blueberry, (which was still in fruit, and a second time in bloom,) Clintonia and Linnaea Borealis, which last a lumberer called moxon, creeping snowberry, painted trillium, large-flowered bell-wort, etc. I fancied that the aster radula, diplopappus umbellatus, solidago lanceolatus, ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. II, No. 8, June 1858 • Various



Words linked to "Clintonia" :   liliaceous plant, bride's bonnet, heal all, queen's cup



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