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Mimosa

noun

Evergreen Australasian tree having white or silvery bark and young leaves and yellow flowers. Synonyms: Acacia dealbata, silver wattle.

Any of various tropical shrubs or trees of the genus Mimosa having usually yellow flowers and compound leaves.

A mixed drink containing champagne and orange juice. Synonym: buck's fizz.

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"Mimosa" Quotes from Famous Books

... a love story, with the scene laid in the mountains of Provence in the early days of the Restoration of King Louis XVIII to the throne of France. An ancient half-ruined chateau perches among dwarf olives and mimosa, orange and lemon groves. There is a vivid contrast between the prosperity of Jaume Deydier, a rich peasant-proprietor, and the grinding poverty of the proud and ancient family of de Ventadour, whose last scion, Bertrand, goes to seek fortune in Paris ...

— When Winter Comes to Main Street • Grant Martin Overton

... the words, and after them there fell a silence broken only by the scolding of a couple of parroquets in a mimosa-tree ...

— The Keeper of the Door • Ethel M. Dell

... the splendour of the sun and led by the trumpet of the wind sang the forest. A hundred million trees lent their voices to the song. A hundred million trees—acacia and palm, m'bina and cottonwood, thorn and mimosa; in gloom, in shine, in valley and on rise, mist-strewn and sun-stricken, all bending under the deep sweet ...

— The Pools of Silence • H. de Vere Stacpoole

... cursed and loathed; 'Twas in a garden bower I knelt one eve, and scalding tears Fell fast on many a flower; And as I rose I marked with awe And agonizing grief, A frail mimosa at my feet Fold ...

— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 4 October 1848 • Various

... jaguar in his retreat. It was near the Joval, below the mouth of the Cano de la Tigrera, that in the midst of wild and awful scenery, he saw an enormous jaguar stretched beneath the shade of a large mimosa. He had just killed a chiguire, an animal about the size of a pig, which he held with one of his paws, while the vultures were assembled in flocks around. It was curious to observe the mixture of boldness and timidity which these birds exhibited; for although they advanced ...

— The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 • Various

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