robinia
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Three representatives of the genus robinia are among our native forest trees.
From Trees Worth Knowing by Rogers, Julia Ellen
Chance led me under a robinia or iron-wood tree, the trunk of which will defy the best-tempered axe.
From Adventures of a Young Naturalist by Gillmore, Parker
In the construction of cells, on the other hand, I see smooth leaves predominating, notably those of the wild briar and of the common acacia, the robinia.
From Bramble-Bees and Others by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander
He said that, if London were destroyed to-morrow, in ten years' time its site would be covered with a forest of maple, sycamore, robinia, showing an undergrowth of Persian willow-herb.
From The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 2 by Gwynn, Stephen Lucius
The White-girdled Leaf-cutter likes the robinia, to which she adds, in lavish proportions, the vine, the rose and the hawthorn and sometimes, in moderation, the reed and the whitish-leaved rock-rose.
From Bramble-Bees and Others by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander
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