gloriosa
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of gloriosa
New Latin, from Latin gloriosus glorious
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This is of a more deciduous nature than Y. gloriosa, reclothing itself each spring more amply with foliage.
From Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. by John Wood
Res gloriosa is an illustrious thing; but vir gloriosus is commonly a braggart, as in miles gloriosus.
From Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 by Samuel Johnson
But my finest discovery here was the Cicindela gloriosa, which I found on mossy stones just rising above the water.
From The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1 by Alfred Russel Wallace
If the secondary floral axes give rise to tertiary ones, the raceme is branching, and forms a panicle, as in Yucca gloriosa.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various
The puella of Antiquity, the noble dame of feudal days, is succeeded in Latin countries, In Italy, and France, and Spain, and Portugal, by the gloriosa donna imitated from.
From Euphorion Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance - Vol. II by Vernon Lee
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