delphinia

delphinia

1. plural of delphinium
   • 1931, An Introduction to Problems of American Culture, page 101:

     One has to look sharp to see the vegetable garden within the border of roses, delphinia, and gladioli.

   • 1992, Elinor Lipman, The Way Men Act, Pocket Books, page 196:

     I took Paulette’s bouquet from the carton—a loose-stemmed spray of delphinia, coquette roses, white lilacs and Queen Anne’s lace—and placed it in her arms.

   • 2000, Martin Clark, The Many Aspects of Mobile Home Living, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 69:

     Evers shut his eyes and saw zinnias, roses, hollyhocks, snapdragons, gladioli, delphinia, meadow rue and petunias with soft, downturned petals and beads of yellow in their middles.

delphinia (uncountable)

1. Synonym of delphinine
   • 1855, Edwin Lankester, “Vegetable Physiology”, in Edward Hughes, editor, Reading Lessons, first book, London: Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans, page 134:

     The Crow-foot tribe is another group of plants yielding aconitina, delphinia, and other alkaloids, and the whole family is consequently to be suspected.

   • 1861, William A. Guy, “On the Color Tests for Strychnia, and the Diagnosis of the Alkalies”, in The American Journal of Pharmacy, Published by Authority of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, volume XXXIII; third series, volume IX, Philadelphia, Pa.: Merrihew & Thompson, […], page 525:

     Strychnia, morphia, atropia, cantharadine, meconine, picrotoxia, and delphinia, after melting, deposited but a scanty carbonaceous ash;

   • 1887 October 15, “Gauthier on Delphinium Staphisagria”, in The London Medical Record: A Monthly Review of the Progress of the Medical Sciences and of Subjects Relating to Public Health, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., page 447:

     Dr. Gauthier draws the following conclusions from his experiments on the physiological and toxicological effects of the delphinia.