Associations to the word «Dicentra»

Wiktionary

DICENTRA, noun. (botany) Any of the plant genus Dicentra.
DICENTRA, proper noun. A taxonomic genus within the family Papaveraceae.
DICENTRA, proper noun. (archaic) A taxonomic genus within the family Fumariaceae   — about a dozen species of perennial herbs with glaucous dissected leaves and a heart-shaped or two-spurred corolla, including Dicentra spectabilis, now Lamprocapnos spectabilis.
DICENTRA SPECTABILIS, proper noun. (archaic) A taxonomic species within the family Fumariaceae   — the bleeding heart, now Lamprocapnos spectabilis.

Dictionary definition

DICENTRA, noun. North American and Asian herbs with divided leaves and irregular flowers.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope