How To Use Elaeagnus In A Sentence
- The Elaeagnus is called Sinjit: it produces a small red fruit, used in medicine as an astringent, it ripens in August, and sells at eight or nine seers the rupee; it is exported in small quantities; but the plant is not much esteemed. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
- The most curious tree is one which with the true appearance of an Elaeagnus, seems to be a Loranthus, the first arborescent species yet found, although, as one or two other exceptions occur to parasitism, there is no reason why there should not be a terrestrial arborescent species, as well as a fruticose one. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
- The Elaeagnus mollis seed oil was extracted by Soxhlet extraction and the oil yield was 32.50 %.
- At Syung an Elaeagnus occurs; Colquhounia as usual in hedges; Styrax occurs at foot of the hill the altitude of which is 5,000 feet. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
- Reasoning that walnuts appreciate humidity and nitrogen, they planted a shrub native to Asia, Elaeagnus umbellata, on either side of each young walnut. Wildwood
- Plant vigorous species for large hedges 70cm (28in) apart: laurels, photinia, elaeagnus, yew, viburnum, holly, griselinia, cypress. Times, Sunday Times
- One such is the silverberry, Elaeagnus argentea, a shrub of northern N. America, especially the Hudson's Bay region, which bears edible fruits.
- In the woody ravines Panax curcasifolia was common, in these I noticed Cerastium scandens, Elaeagnus, Clematis, Tetrantheroidea habitu, Sedgewickiae! Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
- Elaeagnus may significantly improve yields from nitrogen-greedy plum and nut trees, for example, when it is interplanted among them.
- Elaeagnus has nitrogen-fixing roots, which may possibly nourish the walnut, and grows to a height of sixteen feet, creating both humidity and shelter for the young tree, concentrating its growth upwards rather than outwards and suppressing weeds. Wildwood