Citations:Rafflesian
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English citations of Rafflesian
Adjective
[edit]- Of or relating to a plant of the genus Rafflesia.
- At least three quotations are required before this sense can be moved to the entry page.
- 1857 October 10, “A Glance at the Vegetable Kingdom”, in William, Robert Chambers, editors, Chambers’s Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Art, volume VIII, number 197, London, Edinburgh: W. & R. Chambers […], →OCLC, page 235, column 2:
- In that island of beauty, fertility, and horror, grow gorgeous flowers whose dimensions are reckoned by feet instead of fractions of an inch—the Lianes, Paullinias, and Rafflesian lilies.
- 1888 February 11, “Nepenthes Notes”, in Gardeners Chronicle & New Horticulturist:
- The urns are tankard-shaped, with decided appearance of the brilliant Rafflesian markings on the Veitchian broad margin or peristome.