ipomæa

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Noun[edit]

ipomæa (plural ipomæas)

  1. Alternative spelling of ipomoea
    • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Outlying Pickets of the New World”, in The Lost World [], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC, page 114:
      Vivid orchids and wonderful colored lichens smoldered upon the swarthy tree-trunks and where a wandering shaft of light fell full upon the golden allamanda, the scarlet star-clusters of the tacsonia, or the rich deep blue of ipomæa, the effect was as a dream of fairyland.