Vinca

Definition of Vinca

What does Vinca mean?

noun

periwinkles: low creeping evergreen perennials
- synonym: genus Vinca
- more generic: dicot genus / magnoliopsid genus = genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination
- member of: Apocynaceae / dogbane family / family Apocynaceae = chiefly tropical trees or shrubs or herbs having milky juice and often showy flowers
- member: periwinkle = chiefly trailing poisonous plants with blue flowers

Alternative definition

noun

Any of several evergreen shrubs, of the genus Vinca, including the periwinkle

Places

Vinca a.k.a. Vinča is a suburban settlement of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is part of the municipality of Grocka. Vinča-Belo Brdo, an important archaeological site that gives its name to the Neolithic Vinča culture, is located in the village.
- part of Serbia
Vinca a.k.a. Vinça is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France.
- part of Pyrénées-Orientales

Miscellanea

Vinca a.k.a. Vinča is a village in the municipality of Topola, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 1176 people.

Printed dictionaries and other books with definitions about Vinca

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Our garden flowers (1922)

by Harriet Louise Keeler

The Rose Vinca is a plant of erect growth which is used chiefly for summer bedding, as the plants bloom continuously from the time they are set out until frost . They are used largely in parks and public grounds in the same way as geraniums.

The Botanic Garden (1830)

Consisting of Highly Finished Representations of Hardy Ornamental Flowering Plants, Cultivated in Great Britain ; with Their Names, Classes, Orders, History, Qualities, Culture, and Physiological Observations by Benjamin Maund

Vinca is a contracted name from Pervinca, the primitive term, ...

Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: R-Z (1903)

by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller

Vinca is a genus of herbs or subshrubs, erect or procumbent: lvs. opposite: fls. rather large, axillary, solitary; corolla salver-shaped, with a narrow throat which is pilose inside or thickened-calloused ; stamens included above the middle of the ...

A Dictionary of Archaeology (2002)

by Ian Shaw

rJa Vinca culture One of the principal Middle Neolithic to Eneolithic cultures of eastern Europe (east Yugoslavia, south Hungary,

Vinca pottery is distinct from other major Neolithic pottery traditions in southeast Europe in being unpainted.

Rodale's All-New Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening (1992)

The Indispensable Resource for Every Gardener by Fern Marshall Bradley, Barbara W. Ellis

Vinca major, big periwinkle, has glossy oval l"-3" leaves on 2' long stems. The foliage is a lustrous dark green. The abundant blue, red-purple, or white flowers bloom in mid-May and are l"-2" wide. Zones 7-9. V. minor, common periwinkle or ...

Encyclopedia of Border Plants (1999)

by H. Van Dijk

PERIWINKLE & JL o e The Greater periwinkle (Vinca major) and the Lesser periwinkle (Vinca minor) have many cultivars.

Vinca major has large leaves and purple-blue flowers like its cultivar 'Variegata', and leaves with a creamy edge; ...

Encyclopedia of Remedy Relationships in Homeopathy (2004)

by Abdur Rehman

Vinca. minor. Complementary Remedies: Complementary Remedies: - Followed well by:- Inimical:- Antidotes:- Collaterals: Arct, Bov, Chin, Graph, Hep (Skin eruptions - Merc, Mez, OInd, Petr), Jac, Merc, Nux-v (Crusta lacta), DInd (Skin ...

Encyclopedia of Molecular Pharmacology (2008)

by Stefan Offermanns, Walter Rosenthal

Vinca alkaloids are derived from the Madagascar periwinkle plant, Catharanthus roseus.

Vinca alkaloids also inhibit other cellular activities that involve microtubules, such as leukocyte phagocytosis and chemotaxis as well as axonal ...

Taylor's Encyclopedia of Garden Plants (2003)

by Frances Tenenbaum

Vinca minor f. alba Viola tricolor Vitex agnus-castus w Waldsteinia fragarioides Watsonia borbonica Weigela florida Wisteria. tic leaves to 4 inches long and lightly fragrant, flat-topped clusters of white flowers that open from pink buds in ...

The Timber Press Encyclopedia of Flowering Shrubs (2012)

by Jim Gardiner

Vinca minor 'Argenteovariegata' V A long-flowering evergreen shrub with trailing self-rooting stems that bear variegated with creamy white leaves and clear blue flowers. AGM Prostrate; sun or shade; flowers mid spring to mid summer; fertile ...

An Encyclopaedia of Gardening (1897)

A Dictionary of Cultivated Plants, Etc by Thomas William Saunders

White- flowered Indian Periwinkle ( Vinca rosea alba)— see Vinca. White-flowered Irish Heath (Menzksia alba)— see Menziesia. White-flowered Laburnum- tree (Cytisus ...

The New international encyclopaedia (1918)

by Frank Moore Colby, Talcott Williams

pervinca, periwinkle, from per, through + vinca, twist, from vincire...

The lesser periwinkle or myrtle [ Vinca minor), growing in woods and thickets of Europe, is a half-shrubby plant with ...

The encyclopedia of pure materia medica (1879)

a record of the positive effects of drugs upon the healthy human organism by Timothy Field Allen

VINCA. Vinca minor, Linn. Natural order, Apocynacese. Common names, Periwinkle ; (G.), Sinngruen ; (F.), Pervenche. Preparation, Tincture of whole plant .