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Lupine   /lˈupˌaɪn/   Listen
Lupine

noun
1.
Any plant of the genus Lupinus; bearing erect spikes of usually purplish-blue flowers.  Synonym: lupin.



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white lupine
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yellow lupine


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"Lupine" Quotes from Famous Books



... Park is a vast garden of wild flowers which are dense and rich in colors even up to the snow line. Several varieties of the lupine and the larkspur clothe the hillsides with every shade of color, while the modest violet seeks secluded spots in which to bloom. Forget-me-nots, geraniums, harebells, primroses, asters, sunflowers, anemones, roses, and ...
— Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania • Jewett Castello Gilson
... house was kept with great neatness, and even taste; some large rough stones on either side the little path having been formed into a sort of rock-work, with creepers that were now in flower; and the potatoe ground was screened from the eye by sweet peas and lupine. Simple elegance all this, it is true; but how well it speaks for peasant and landlord, when you see that the peasant is fond of his home, and has some spare time and heart to bestow upon mere embellishment. Such a peasant is sure to be a bad customer ...
— International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, - No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 • Various
... have found the wild tulip, the primrose, the lupine, the eardrop, the larkspur, and creeping hollyhock, and a beautiful flower resembling the bloom of the beech tree, but in bunches as large as a small sugarloaf, and of every variety of shade, to ...
— The Passing of the Frontier - A Chronicle of the Old West, Volume 26 in The Chronicles - Of America Series • Emerson Hough


Words linked to "Lupine" :   Lupinus luteus, wolf, Lupinus subcarnosus, ligneous plant, wolf bean, false lupine, Lupinus albus, bluebonnet, woody plant, buffalo clover, Lupinus, Lupinus texensis, Egyptian lupine, genus Lupinus, Texas bluebonnet


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