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Laburnum

noun
1.
Flowering shrubs or trees having bright yellow flowers; all parts of the plant are poisonous.  Synonym: genus Laburnum.



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"Laburnum" Quotes from Famous Books



... on the islands, on a lively dark-brown horse, and drank tea there with a nice, old, white-haired Countess Stroganoff. The lilac, I must tell you, has flowered here as beautifully as in Frankfort, and the laburnum, too; and the nightingales warble so happily that it is hard to find a spot on the islands where one does not hear them. In the city, during these days, we had such unremitting heat as we almost never have ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. X. • Kuno Francke

... ways. Before you, and to the left, stretches the town, consisting of wide streets or roadways, with irregular buildings on either side, interspersed with gardens now lovely with profuse blooms of laburnum and lilac." ...
— Life and Remains of John Clare - "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet" • J. L. Cherry

... harmless, if not serviceable seeds. It is of all tribes of plants the most definite, its blossoms being entirely limited in their parts, and not passing into other forms. It is also the most usefully extended in range and scale; familiar in the height of the forest— acacia, laburnum, Judas-tree; familiar in the sown field—bean and vetch and pea; familiar in the pasture—in every form of clustered clover and sweet trefoil tracery; the most entirely serviceable and human ...
— The Queen of the Air • John Ruskin



Words linked to "Laburnum" :   Laburnum alpinum, rosid dicot genus, Papilionoideae, golden rain, Alpine golden chain, genus Laburnum, golden chain, common laburnum, subfamily Papilionoideae



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