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Chloris   /klˈɔrɪs/   Listen
Chloris

noun
1.
Tufted or perennial or annual grasses having runners: finger grass; windmill grass.  Synonym: genus Chloris.



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Chloris gayana
Chloris truncata
Acanthisitta chloris


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"Chloris" Quotes from Famous Books



... the pasture's queen, where'er ye stray, Pursues your steps, delighted; and the path With living verdure clothes. Around your haunts The laughing Chloris, [Q] with profusest hand, Throws wide her blooms, her odours. Still with you 80 Pomona seeks to dwell; and o'er the lawns, And o'er the vale of Richmond, where with Thames Ye love to wander, Amalthea [R] pours, Well-pleased, the wealth of that Ammonian horn, Her dower; unmindful of the fragrant ...
— Poetical Works of Akenside - [Edited by George Gilfillan] • Mark Akenside
... nothing," says Homer, "better and nobler than when husband and wife, being of one mind, rule a household."[257] Penelope and Clytemnestra are left in charge of the realms of their husbands during their absence in Troy; the beautiful Chloris ruled as queen in Pylos.[258] Arete, the beloved wife of Alcinous, played an important part as peacemaker in the kingdom of her husband. It is to her Nausicaea brings Ulysses on his return, bidding him kneel to her mother ...
— The Truth About Woman • C. Gasquoine Hartley


Words linked to "Chloris" :   Chloris gayana, Poaceae, family Poaceae, liliopsid genus, family Graminaceae, genus Chloris, Chloris truncata, monocot genus, grass family, family Gramineae, Acanthisitta chloris, Gramineae, Graminaceae


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