delphinia

noun

1. (form-of, plural)plural of delphinium

   “One has to look sharp to see the vegetable garden within the border of roses, delphinia, and gladioli.”

   “I took Paulette’s bouquet from the carton—a loose-stemmed spray of delphinia, coquette roses, white lilacs and Queen Anne’s lace—and placed it in her arms.”

   “Evers shut his eyes and saw zinnias, roses, hollyhocks, snapdragons, gladioli, delphinia, meadow rue and petunias with soft, downturned petals and beads of yellow in their middles.”

2. (uncountable)Synonym of delphinine.

   “The Crow-foot tribe is another group of plants yielding aconitina, delphinia, and other alkaloids, and the whole family is consequently to be suspected.”

   “Strychnia, morphia, atropia, cantharadine, meconine, picrotoxia, and delphinia, after melting, deposited but a scanty carbonaceous ash;”

   “Dr. Gauthier draws the following conclusions from his experiments on the physiological and toxicological effects of the delphinia.”