NOUN
- any of various shrubs or vines of the genus Clianthus having compound leaves and pea-like red flowers in drooping racemes
How To Use clianthus In A Sentence
- Your clianthus is infested with Carnation Tortrix caterpillars.
- The clianthus pea and the vetch pea they ate ravenously, and when they can get those they require very little water. Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated,
- When A stands for abutilon, B for bougainvillea and C for clianthus, we must be in a conservatory where the temperature never falls below 45 degrees Fahrenheit.
- When A stands for abutilon, B for bougainvillea and C for clianthus, we must be in a conservatory where the temperature never falls below 45 degrees Fahrenheit.
- This species, named Clianthus Dampieri by Cunningham, he characterises as having leaves of a slightly different form, but its principal distinction is in its having racemes instead of umbels; at the same time he confidently refers to Dampier's figure and description, both of which prove the flowers to be umbellate, as he describes those of his Expedition into Central Australia
- Clianthus formosus, the desert pea from Australia, is a spectacular shrub when in flower.
