caragana

American  

[kar-uh-gey-nuh, -gah-] / ˌkær əˈgeɪ nə, -ˈgɑ- /

noun

1. any Asiatic tree or shrub of the genus Caragana, of the pea family, having pinnately compound leaves and mostly yellow flowers, used as hedge plants in the United States, especially in cold regions.

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Etymology

Origin of caragana

From New Latin, perhaps directly from Mongolian karaγana “Siberian pea tree,” from Turkic

Example Sentences

Caragana frutex, formerly called Caragana frutescens, is a somewhat taller shrub and not quite so floriferous.

From Project Gutenberg

The range of the Cytisus, which is a beautiful sweet smelling shrub, is extensive, it may be included here between 3,000 and 7,000 feet: associated with it between 4,000 to 4,500 feet is a Caragana, and about this occurs a fine Salveoideo-Dracocephalum.

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Caragana in the grassy swardy ravines. 

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Proceeded up the Siah-Sung; along the river, green sward with patches of Caragana, Campanula, and Geraniums occurred in profusion in some places. 

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These mountains are barren, chiefly covered with Convolvulus spinosus, which has a different aspect, with a Sytisoid, handsome silvery shrub, a species of Caragana and Apocynum viminale: about the spring and in other places there are thick patches of a very dwarf palm, and a solitary fig tree, a Lycium album continues: the bed occupied by tufts of coarse Andropogons and Apocynum viminale; about the spring Adiantum, a small Boraginia, white flowered small Compositæ, a withered Hepaticum, two or three efructiferous mosses, and the Primuloid plant. 

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