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Gladiolus   Listen
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Gladiolus  n.  (pl. L. gladioli, E. gladioluses)  
1.
(Bot.) A genus of plants having bulbous roots and gladiate leaves, and including many species, some of which are cultivated and valued for the beauty of their flowers; the corn flag; the sword lily.
2.
(Anat.) The middle portion of the sternum in some animals; the mesosternum.





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"Gladiolus" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the thorax are rare. Bramann reported a case in which a dermoid cyst of small size was situated over the sternum at the junction of the manubrium with the gladiolus, and a similar cyst in the neck near the left cornu of the hyoid bone. Chitten removed a dermoid from the sternum of a female of thirty-nine, the cyst containing 11 ounces of atheromatous material. In the Museum of St. Bartholomew's ...
— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine • George M. Gould
... wild blue-flag (Iris versicolor) (Fig. 84, A, E), as well as by numerous cultivated species. In iris the carpels are free above and colored like the petals (B), with the stigma on the under side. Of garden flowers the gladiolus and crocus are the most familiar examples, besides the various species of iris; and of wild flowers the little "blue-eyed ...
— Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany - For High Schools and Elementary College Courses • Douglas Houghton Campbell
... blowing, might deposit some moisture on the windward ascent and top; but the heat would then impart the increased capacity the air now receives at the lower level in its descent to leeward, and, instead of an extended country with a flora of the 'Disa grandiflora', 'gladiolus', 'rushes', and 'lichens', which now appear on Table Mountain, we should have only the ...
— Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa - Journeys and Researches in South Africa • David Livingstone


Words linked to "Gladiolus" :   glad, genus Gladiolus, os, sword lily, iridaceous plant, corpus sternum, sternum, breastbone


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