houstonia

/hoo-stoh-nee-uh/US // huˈstoʊ ni ə //UK // (huːˈstəʊnɪə) //

休斯敦尼亚,休斯敦利亚,休斯敦人,休斯敦

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : any North American plant, belonging to the genus Houstonia, of the madder family, especially H. caerulea, the common bluet.

Our houstonia and hepatica would probably become a deep blue in that country.
And the creeping, round-leaved houstonia was here, with a superfluity of a weedy blue sage (Salvia lyrata).
It is prettier than the violet, and larger and deeper colored than our houstonia.
That sociablest of flowers, the little Houstonia, was very abundant.
In another locality I might have brought him dwarf cornel, or the houstonia, or wood-sorrel, or the evening-primrose.