houstonia c[ae]rulea

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houstonia c[ae]rulea - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Quaker \Quak"er\, n.
     1. One who quakes.
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     2. One of a religious sect founded by George Fox, of
        Leicestershire, England, about 1650, -- the members of
        which call themselves Friends. They were called Quakers,
        originally, in derision. See Friend, n., 4.
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              Fox's teaching was primarily a preaching of
              repentance . . . The trembling among the listening
              crowd caused or confirmed the name of Quakers given
              to the body; men and women sometimes fell down and
              lay struggling as if for life.        --Encyc. Brit.
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     3. (Zool.)
        (a) The nankeen bird.
        (b) The sooty albatross.
        (c) Any grasshopper or locust of the genus Edipoda; --
            so called from the quaking noise made during flight.
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     Quaker buttons. (Bot.) See Nux vomica.
  
     Quaker gun, a dummy cannon made of wood or other material;
        -- so called because the sect of Friends, or Quakers, hold
        to the doctrine, of nonresistance.
  
     Quaker ladies (Bot.), a low American biennial plant
        (Houstonia c[ae]rulea), with pretty four-lobed corollas
        which are pale blue with a yellowish center; -- also
        called bluets, and little innocents.
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