amorpha

NOUN
  1. any plant of the genus Amorpha having odd-pinnate leaves and purplish spicate flowers

How To Use amorpha In A Sentence

  • In the bottoms were frequently seen tradescantia, and on the dry lenches were carduus, cactus, and amorpha. The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources
  • I remember one comment I read from a user from Conservapedia on FSTDT where he totally mixed up evolution and metamorphasis (as in butterflies) while trying to prove evolution wrong. Think Progress » Afraid Of Tea Partiers, Armey Withholds Support From McCain In Race Against ‘Undistinguished’ J.D. Hayworth
  • The morphology of the middle and distal phalanx in Tapocyon exhibits a retractile claw condition, supporting this as the primitive condition for Carnivora / Carnivoramorpha.
  • Schlechtendal [17] notices something of the same kind in the leaf of _Amorpha fruticosa_; Treviranus [18] in that of _Aristolochia Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
  • It also occurs in the bracts of _Corydalis solida_, _Amorpha fruticosa_, _Ajuga reptans_, _Parthenium inodorum_, _Centaurea Jacea_, in the involucral bracts of the dandelion, the daisy, and many other composites. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
  • Amorpha canescens, Tephrosia Virginiana, Lithospermum canescens; _ between which the immigrated Mullein _ (Verbuscum thapsus) _ may be found. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator
  • Moquin relates a case of the kind in the haricot bean, in which the carina was entirely absent, and another in the pea, where both carina and alæ were missing, thus reducing the flower to the condition that is normal in _Amorpha_ and _Afzelia_. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
  • The primitive condition in carnivorans/carnivoramorphans is believed to be one in which the stapedial artery branches off the internal carotid.
  • It also occurs in the bracts of _Corydalis solida_, _Amorpha fruticosa_, _Ajuga reptans_, _Parthenium inodorum_, _Centaurea Jacea_, in the involucral bracts of the dandelion, the daisy, and many other composites. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
  • Page 394 coursing through the green plains, and dark promontories, or obtuse projections of the side-long acclivities, alternately advancing or receding on the verge of the illumined native fields, to the utmost extent of sight; the summits of the acclivities afford, besides the forest trees already recited, Halesia, Ptelea, Circis, Cornus Florida and Amorpha. Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Producti
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