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Look up: Lobelia

  1. Lobelia
    (Cardinal Flower, Indian Pink, Lobelia) These are hardy and tender, annuals and perennials that grow wild in various parts of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. There are over 200 species, but comparatively few are grown in the garden. Those mainly grown range in size from the dwarf, compact ann...
    Found on http://www.botany.com/lobelia.html

  2. lobelia
    [n] - any plant or flower of the genus Lobelia
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  3. Lobelia
    Lo·be'li·a noun [ New Latin So called from Lobel , botanist to King James I.] (Botany) A genus of plants, including a great number of species. Lobelia inflata , or Indian tobacco, is an annual plant of North America, whose leaves co...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/L/54

  4. lobelia
    <botany> A genus of plants, including a great number of species. Lobelia inflata, or Indian tobacco, is an annual plant of North America, whose leaves contain a poisonous white viscid juice, of an acrid taste. It has often been used in medicine as an emetic, expectorant, etc. L. Cardinalis is ...
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  5. lobelia
    noun any plant or flower of the genus Lobelia
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  6. Lobelia
    • (n.) A genus of plants, including a great number of species. Lobelia inflata, or Indian tobacco, is an annual plant of North America, whose leaves contain a poisonous white viscid juice, of an acrid taste. It has often been used in medicine as an emetic, expectorant, etc. L. cardinalis is the...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  7. Lobelia
    (from the article `conservation`) ...case of the three honeycreepers described above, however, their extinctions may have followed the destruction of important nectar-producing plants ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/l/64

  8. lobelia
    Type: Term Pronunciation: lō-bē′lē-ă Definitions: 1. The dried leaves and tops of Lobelia inflata (family Lobeliaceae); lobelia contains several alkaloids: lobeline, lobelamine, lobelanidine, lobelanine, norlobelanine, norlobelanidine, and isolobelanine. The fluid extract a...
    Found on http://www.medilexicon.com/medicaldictio

  9. lobelia
    Any of a group of temperate and tropical plants with white to mauve flowers. Lobelias may grow to shrub size but are mostly small annual plants. (Genus Lobelia, family Lobeliaceae.)
    Found on http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/ency

  10. Lobelia
    The Lobelia was a Built-built French Lobelia Class corvette of 925 tons displacement launched in 1941 as HMS Lobelia. The Lobelia was powered by two oil-fired boilers providing a top speed of 15.5 knots and carried a complement of 85. She was armed with one 4 inch anti-aircraft gun; two 57 mm anti-a...
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  11. lobelia
    lobelia (lōbēl'yu) , any plant of the genus Lobelia, annual and perennial herbs of tropical and temperate woodlands and moist places. Most lobelias have blue or purple flowers on a long (1–4 ft/30–122 cm), leafy stem. Native North American species, often cultivated as orn...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A08300

  12. Lobelia
    Lobelia (named after Matthew Lobel, physician and botanist to James I) is a genus of herbaceous plants belonging to the family Campanulaceae, bearing racemes of flowers with irregular tubular corollas, the limbs being five partite, having a bifid upper lip. They are natives of almost all parts of th...
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  13. Lobelia
    ) is a genus of flowering plant comprising 360–400 species, with a subcosmopolitan distribution primarily in tropical to warm temperate regions of the world, a few species extending into cooler temperate regions.<ref name=rhs>Huxley, A., ed. (1992). New RHS Dictionary of Gardening. ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobelia



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11 February 2012

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On 11th February, 1858, a 14 year old French peasant girl, Bernadette Soubirous claimed to have seen visions of the Virgin Mary at her native Lourdes. She also revealed that the waters of a spring near a grotto in Lourdes had been given healing powers by the Virgin. Eventually, the Roman Catholic church decided that the visions were authentic. Franz Werfel wrote the novel, Song of Bernadette, based on the story of Bernadette's visions. read more

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