hovea

/ ˈhəʊvɪə /

noun

1. any of various plants of the Australian genus Hovea , having clusters of small purple flowers

Example Sentences

Now, do you remember Misifolo—a tall, thin Hovea boy that came shortly before you left?

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I also here obtained specimens of a beautiful Hovea, with long lanceolate leaves, a much finer shrub than H. celsii.

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Thus Hovea and Bossiaea were detected in New South Wales, in latitude 20 and 22 degrees South, as well as on the North Coast; the latter genus being likewise found on the north-western shores, where also two species of Kennedia exist; and Templetonia, a genus nearly related to Bossiaea, originally discovered on the southern shores of Australia, is abundant on an island off the West Coast.

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Hovea Celsi.—A greenhouse shrub, which is evergreen and elegant when in flower in June.

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Hovea lanceolata, 212. ——* leiocarpa, BENTH.

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