cassiope
Americannoun
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(sometimes initial capital letter) any evergreen shrub belonging to the genus Cassiope, of the heath family, having nodding white or pinkish solitary flowers and scalelike or needlelike leaves.
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(initial capital letter) Cassiopeia.
Etymology
Origin of cassiope
< New Latin, Latin < Greek Kassiópē Cassiopeia
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A few are standing at an elevation of nearly three thousand feet; at twenty-five hundred feet, pyrola, veratrum, vaccinium, fine grasses, sedges, willows, mountain-ash, buttercups, and acres of the most luxuriant cassiope are in bloom.
From Travels in Alaska by John Muir
On the banks of the river and its tributaries cassiope and bryanthus may be found, where the sod curls over stream banks and around boulders.
From The Yosemite by John Muir
Of these cassiope is at once the commonest and the most beautiful and influential.
From Travels in Alaska by John Muir
The lower are mostly alder bushes and the topmost a lavish profusion of flowering plants, chiefly cassiope, vaccinium, pyrola, erigeron, gentiana, campanula, anemone, larkspur, and columbine, with a few grasses and ferns.
From Travels in Alaska by John Muir
On the edge of some of the snow-banks I noticed cassiope.
From Travels in Alaska by John Muir
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