andromeda
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Spikes of creamy white astilbe mimicked Mona Lisa’s skin tone, and the long seed heads of the andromeda aped her fingers and added a tawny layer. — Lindsey Taylor, WSJ, "If the ‘Mona Lisa’ Were Made of Flowers...," 7 Aug. 2018 The andromeda alongside my front steps mysteriously died over the winter. — New York Times, "How Hard Can It Be to Grow a Garden?," 25 May 2018 Lace bugs are extremely common on both azaleas and andromeda, shrubs that like moist organic soil and partial shade. — Ellen Nibali, baltimoresun.com, "Garden Q&A: How to keep lace bugs from turning your plants yellow," 17 May 2018 Your andromeda and azaleas have lace bugs, an insect that inserts its feeding tube into the leaf and sucks out the contents of plant cells. — Ellen Nibali, baltimoresun.com, "Garden Q&A: How to keep lace bugs from turning your plants yellow," 17 May 2018 There are no richer parterres to my eyes than the dense beds of dwarf andromeda (Cassandra calyculata) which cover these tender places on the earth’s surface. — Henry David Thoreau, The Atlantic, "The Swamp Lover," 6 Oct. 2017 Botany cannot go farther than tell me the names of the shrubs which grow there,—the high-blueberry, panicled andromeda, lambkill, azalea, and rhodora,—all standing in the quaking sphagnum. — Henry David Thoreau, The Atlantic, "The Swamp Lover," 6 Oct. 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'andromeda.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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