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UK
/plʌmbˈeɪɡəʊ/
]
NOUN
- any plumbaginaceous plant of the genus Plumbago
- used as a lubricant and as a moderator in nuclear reactors
How To Use plumbago In A Sentence
- Digestive effects: The roots of Plumbago zeylanica were found to stimulate the proliferation of coliform bacteria in mice and act as an intestinal flora normaliser. Find Me A Cure
- I have several blue plumbagos in pots on my patio, and they do very well.
- I've got a feeling the BLUE plant in the terracotta pot is a plumbago (is it, Kristin?) ... having a friendly conversation with the RED busy lizzies in the old bucket. Avant-propos - French Word-A-Day
- If I recollect right, steel and plumbago, which you mentioned in the last lesson, are both carburets of iron? Conversations on Chemistry, V. 1-2 In Which the Elements of that Science Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments
- So, yes, in blue, I'm sure now it is a plumbago, but the red flowers "dans le seau" (in the bucket) are not busy lizzies - and not geraniums either. Avant-propos - French Word-A-Day
- Cut back robust greenhouse climbers such as passion flowers and plumbago to within a few inches of the old wood.
- While the garden's toughest souls - including agaves, plumbago and ornamental grasses - remain healthy enough to prevent us from feeling total despair, other plants are showing signs of stress.
- The garden is completed by tall jacaranda trees, conifers, and in the rockery just below the house, is a tumble of lavender, plumbago, rosemary, agapanthus, hibiscus and hydrangeas.
- Here are the magnolia, the laurel, the Japanese medlar, the oleander, the pepper, the bay, the date-palm, a tree called the plumbago, another from the Cape of Good The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner
- I've got a feeling the BLUE plant in the terracotta pot is a plumbago (is it, Kristin?) ... having a friendly conversation with the RED busy lizzies in the old bucket. Avant-propos - French Word-A-Day