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Raoulia

noun
1.
Genus of low-growing mat-forming New Zealand plants; in some classifications includes species placed in genus Haastia.  Synonym: genus Raoulia.



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"Raoulia" Quotes from Famous Books



... in the Alpine regions of the South Island a plant popularly called the 'vegetable sheep,' botanically named Raoulia. From the distance of even a few yards it looks like a sheep. It grows in great masses, and consists of a woolly vegetation. A large specimen of this singular plant was exhibited in the Colonial and Indian Exhibition. It is said that the kea was ...
— A Dictionary of Austral English • Edward Morris



Words linked to "Raoulia" :   Raoulia lutescens, Raoulia australis, sheep plant, aster family, vegetable sheep, asterid dicot genus, Compositae, family Compositae, Asteraceae, family Asteraceae, genus Raoulia



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