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Chloris

noun

Tufted or perennial or annual grasses having runners: finger grass; windmill grass. Synonym: genus Chloris.

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"Chloris" Quotes from Famous Books

... terrace beside the house are seated PERSEPHONE, MAIA, and CHLORIS. The afternoon is rapidly waning, and lights are seen to twinkle on the farther shore of the sea. As the twilight deepens, from just out of sight a man's voice is heard singing ...

— Hypolympia - Or, The Gods in the Island, an Ironic Fantasy • Edmund Gosse

... knowing, that, by scrambling up a rock, I shall only see other rocks, and a wider circuit of barren desolation. Of streams, we have here a sufficient number; but they murmur not upon pebbles, but upon rocks. Of flowers, if Chloris herself were here, I could present her only with the bloom of heath. Of lawns and thickets, he must read that would know them, for here is little sun, and no shade. On the sea I look from my window, but am not much tempted to the shore; for since I came to this island, almost every ...

— Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 - The Works Of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., In Nine Volumes • Samuel Johnson

Words linked to "Chloris" : Graminaceae, liliopsid genus, family Poaceae, monocot genus, Gramineae, family Graminaceae, grass family, Poaceae, family Gramineae