Perennial woodland spring-flowering plant; widely cultivated.
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Examples for "dogtooth"
Examples for "dogtooth"
1Vegetation was rank, and the dogtooth violet, honeysuckle, blue-bell, and columbine were in blossom.
2A single wooden spire rose from the Norman church, a dogtooth pattern of lead tiles catching the light.
3One may see that angular dogtooth ornament that makes the round Norman gateways look like the gaping mouths of sharks.
4The crystals are about an inch high in the shape of dogtooth or calcareous spar, covered with a dark ferruginous matter.
5Another form of calcite which is to be sparingly found is what is called dogtooth spar, having the form shown in Fig.
1Vegetation was rank, and the dogtooth violet, honeysuckle, blue-bell, and columbine were in blossom.
2It is the only locality in which I have found the dogtooth violet in bloom, and the best place I know of to gather arbutus.
3Bug pointed to a group of students wandering about in search of dogtooth violets and other botanical plunder from Nature's springtime treasury.
1This little gem belongs to the spring garden, and should be the companion of the Dog's-tooth Violet, the Crocus, and the Snowdrop.