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salvation Jane

salvation Jane noun: the plant Echium plantagineum.

salvation jane: the plant Echium plantagineum
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Noun

Salvation Jane (uncountable)

  1. (Australia, South) The plant Echium plantagineum.
    • The plaintiff, an agency of the Commonwealth, in 1980 proposed to import into Australia and release certain insects for the purpose of eradicating or controlling a plant known as Salvation Jane. The plaintiff regarded Salvation Jane as a noxious weed. However, apiarists and certain others engaged...2001, Law Book Company, The Federal Law Reports, volume 162, page 447
    • Salvation Jane coats the hills like a lavender shroud. Its distant beauty is at once mysterious and deceptive—the purple tubular flowers sublime and delicate, the stems holding them prickly and unrelenting.2009, Basia Bonkowski, Shimmer, Large print edition, page 176

Examples of salvation Jane in a sentence

  • The plaintiff, an agency of the Commonwealth, in 1980 proposed to import into Australia and release certain insects for the purpose of eradicating or controlling a plant known as Salvation Jane.2001, Law Book Company, The Federal Law Reports, volume 162, page 447:
  • Though it is a meagre source of food compared to grass when there is no grass, Salvation Jane may just save the day for a hungry herd.2009, Nathan Mullins, How to Amputate a Leg: And Other Ways to Stay Out of Trouble, page 164:

Synonyms of salvation Jane

Origin of salvation Jane

From salvation + Jane (“female given name”); a reference to its use as animal fodder in times of drought.

Questions about salvation Jane

What does salvation Jane mean?
Salvation Jane means the plant Echium plantagineum.
How do you use salvation Jane in a sentence?
The plaintiff, an agency of the Commonwealth, in 1980 proposed to import into Australia and release certain insects for the purpose of eradicating or controlling a plant known as Salvation Jane.
What part of speech is salvation Jane?
Salvation Jane is a noun.

Words near salvation Jane in the dictionary

  1. salvatic
  2. Salvatierra
  3. Salvatierras
  4. salvation
  5. Salvation Army
  6. salvation Jane
  7. salvational
  8. salvationally
  9. salvationary
  10. salvationed
  11. salvationing

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