The flowers of these plants are called papilionaceous, or butterfly-like, from the fancied resemblance of the expanded superior petals to the wings of a butterfly.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life] Reference

'The papilionaceous and exorbitant auditory impediment?'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captain Corelli's Mandolin]

One of the two lateral petals of a papilionaceous flower.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 9] Reference

'It's very papilionaceous, is it not?' enquired the doctor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captain Corelli's Mandolin]

The leaves are three-parted and the papilionaceous flowers are born in axillary racemes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882] Reference

It is a papilionaceous plant with trifoliate leaves, of which the terminal leaflet is large, and the two lateral, very small.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose His Life and Speeches] Reference

Corolla papilionaceous; standard elongated, lanceolate.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference

"It's very papilionaceous, is it not?" enquired the doctor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bookworm] Reference

The caterpillars live on the pea and other papilionaceous plants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses] Reference

This is a natural clafs, with papilionaceous or pea flowers, and leguminous fruits.    From Wordnik.com.  [The language of botany : being a dictionary of the terms made use of in that science, principally by Linneus ...] Reference

The Mackenzie-bean and several other papilionaceous plants, with some new grasses, grow in it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845] Reference

As the items of many plants \ the - peduncle; the banner of papilionaceous flowers; and the ftyle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The language of botany : being a dictionary of the terms made use of in that science, principally by Linneus ...] Reference

The Ambarré, otherwise Nyumbo plant, has a pea-shaped, or rather papilionaceous flower, with a fine scent.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868] Reference

As in the case of other papilionaceous blossoms, bees are the visitors best adapted to fertilize the flowers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wild Flowers Worth Knowing] Reference

The majority of these, however, consisted of papilionaceous plants, and several beautiful varieties of Orchideae.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expedition into Central Australia] Reference

The pinnate leaves obviously constitute a reversion to some prototype, to some ancestor with ordinary papilionaceous leaves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation] Reference

It does not belong to the solanaceous, but to the papilionaceous or pea family, and its flowers have a delightful fragrance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868] Reference

The pea family, or the group of papilionaceous plants, has pinnate leaves ordinarily, which, according to our premises, must be considered as a derivative type.    From Wordnik.com.  [Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation] Reference

If now the clover increases its number of leaflets, this may be considered as a reversion to its nearest progenitors, the papilionaceous plants with pinnate leaves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation] Reference

Obviously the clovers, with their three leaflets in each leaf, stand in the midst of the great family of papilionaceous plants, the leaves of which are generally pinnate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation] Reference

Agents in fertilisation of papilionaceous flowers.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference

A few solani and some papilionaceous plants, we had seen nothing either new or rare.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expedition into Central Australia] Reference

Coronilla emerus is of the ordinary papilionaceous type.).    From Wordnik.com.  [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference

Corolla papilionaceous, white.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference

Wing (of papilionaceous flower), 208.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses] Reference

Corolla papilionaceous, wings horizontal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference

Applied to the keel of a papilionaceous flower.    From Wordnik.com.  [The language of botany : being a dictionary of the terms made use of in that science, principally by Linneus ...] Reference

Corolla papilionaceous.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference

Corolla papilionaceous, petals equal, clawed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference