Citations:applebearing

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English citations of applebearing

  • 1640, John Parkinson, Theatrum Botanicum: the Theater of Plants. Or, an Herball of a Large Extent, page 355:
    Solanum poniferum Indicum folio rotundo.
    Indian Applebearing Nightshade with round leaves. This plant being onely mentioned by Monarus, in his history of those simple medicines, that come from the West Indies, ...
  • 1842, Samuel Rush Meyrick, A Critical Inquiry Into Antient Armour, as it Existed in Europe, volume 1, section "Abella":
    And those on whom the walls of the applebearing Abella look,
    Accustomed to twirl the cateiae, in the Teutonic manner,
  • 1853, Horace (orginal author), Francis William Newman (translator), The Odes of Horace, Translated Into Unrhymed Metres, with an Introduction and Notes, by F. W. Newman, page 109:
    Then no baleful wind shall blight
    Joyful vines, nor barren rust
    The corn; nor applebearing season
    Cruel smite the tender younglings.
  • 2003, Spiridon E. Kintzios, Sage: The Genus Salvia, CRC Press (→ISBN), pages 11 and 24:
    Salvia pomifera Apple-bearing Sage
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    Salvia pomifera
    Salvia pomifera, the applebearing sage, has a very peculiar growth and is common ...