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Scrophularia   Listen
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Scrophularia  n.  (Bot.) A genus of coarse herbs having small flowers in panicled cymes; figwort.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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... every side of us innumerable adaptations and contrivances, which have justly excited in the mind of every observer the highest admiration. There is, for instance, a fly (Cecidomyia)[3] which deposits its eggs within the stamens of a Scrophularia, and secretes a poison which produces a gall, on which the larva feeds; but there is another insect (Misocampus) which deposits its eggs within the body of the larva within the gall, and is thus nourished by its living prey; so that here a hymenopterous ...
— The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. • Charles Darwin



Words linked to "Scrophularia" :   figwort family, genus Scrophularia, family Scrophulariaceae



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