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Houstonia
(gcide) | Houstonia \Hous*to"ni*a\, n. [NL. So named after Dr. William
Houston, an English surgeon and botanist.] (Bot.)
A genus of small rubiaceous herbs, having tetramerous
salveform blue or white flower. There are about twenty
species, natives of North America. Also, a plant of this
genus.
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Houstonia caerulea
(gcide) | Quaker \Quak"er\, n.
1. One who quakes.
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2. One of a religious sect founded by George Fox, of
Leicestershire, England, about 1650, -- the members of
which call themselves Friends. They were called Quakers,
originally, in derision. See Friend, n., 4.
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Fox's teaching was primarily a preaching of
repentance . . . The trembling among the listening
crowd caused or confirmed the name of Quakers given
to the body; men and women sometimes fell down and
lay struggling as if for life. --Encyc. Brit.
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3. (Zool.)
(a) The nankeen bird.
(b) The sooty albatross.
(c) Any grasshopper or locust of the genus Edipoda; --
so called from the quaking noise made during flight.
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Quaker buttons. (Bot.) See Nux vomica.
Quaker gun, a dummy cannon made of wood or other material;
-- so called because the sect of Friends, or Quakers, hold
to the doctrine, of nonresistance.
Quaker ladies (Bot.), a low American biennial plant
(Houstonia c[ae]rulea), with pretty four-lobed corollas
which are pale blue with a yellowish center; -- also
called bluets, and little innocents.
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Houstonia coerulea
(gcide) | Bluets \Blu"ets\, n. [F. bluet, bleuet, dim. of bleu blue. See
Blue, a.] (Bot.)
A name given to several different species of plants having
blue flowers, as the Houstonia c[oe]rulea, the {Centaurea
cyanus} or bluebottle, and the Vaccinium angustifolium.
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ageratum houstonianum
(wn) | Ageratum houstonianum
n 1: small tender herb grown for its fluffy brushlike blue to
lavender blooms [syn: common ageratum, {Ageratum
houstonianum}] |
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