fraxinella

American  

[frak-suh-nel-uh] / ˌfræk səˈnɛl ə /

noun

1. gas plant.

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fraxinella British  

/ ˌfræksɪˈnɛlə /

noun

1. another name for gas plant

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Etymology

Origin of fraxinella

1655–65; < New Latin, equivalent to Latin frāxin ( us ) ash tree + -ella feminine diminutive suffix

Example Sentences

I dare say he meant the dictamnus fraxinella, which is sometimes luminous.

From Old Calabria by Douglas, Norman

I fancied that my Sunday coat was scented for days afterwards by the bushes of sweetbriar and the fraxinella that perfumed the air.

From Cousin Phillis by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn

To the right of them sprang up the slim fraxinella, the centranthus draped with snowy blossoms, and the greyish hounds-tongue, in each of whose tiny flowercups gleamed a dewdrop.

From Abbe Mouret's Transgression by Zola, Émile

In the last-mentioned case they are called declinate, as in amaryllis, horse-chestnut and fraxinella.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various

Lastly, seven flower-stalks on a plant of Dictamnus fraxinella were observed on the 15th of June 1841 during ten minutes; they were visited by thirteen humble-bees each of which entered many flowers.

From Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom by Darwin, Charles