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cuphea

cuphea noun: any plant of the genus Cuphea, including cigar plants.

Noun

cuphea (plural cupheas)

  1. Any plant of the genus Cuphea, including cigar plants.
    • […] I gave myself up to the enjoyment of the landscape, and of the sight of the garden flowers (as we should regard them in England) growing wild at our feet, including cupheas, ageratum, and double briar-roases, irises, jasmines, and many others.1885, Annie Brassey, In the Trades, the Tropics, & the Roaring Forties
    • This is consistent with the results reported by [52 ] which recorded a significant reduction of root length and shoot dry matter in cuphea plants (family Lythraceae) when V(V) was added to hydroponic solutions in the 25–150 μM range.2015 October 21, “Detoxification Processes from Vanadate at the Root Apoplasm Activated by Caffeic and Polygalacturonic Acids”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Forms of cuphea

pluralcupheas

Origin of cuphea

Borrowed from translingual Cuphea.

Words formed from cuphea

Questions about cuphea

What does cuphea mean?
Cuphea means any plant of the genus Cuphea, including cigar plants.
What part of speech is cuphea?
Cuphea is a noun.
What is the plural of cuphea?
The plural of cuphea is cupheas.

Words near cuphea in the dictionary

  1. cupflower
  2. cupflowers
  3. cupful
  4. cupfuls
  5. cupgrass
  6. cuphea
  7. cuphead
  8. cupheads
  9. cupheas
  10. cupholder
  11. cupholders

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