| carolina lupine | (n) eastern United States bush pea, Syn. Thermopsis villosa |
| false lupine | (n) western United States bushy herb having yellow pea-like flowers, Syn. yellow pea, golden pea, Thermopsis macrophylla |
| lupine | (n) any plant of the genus Lupinus; bearing erect spikes of usually purplish-blue flowers, Syn. lupin |
| lupine | (adj) of or relating to or characteristic of wolves |
| lupinus | (n) herbs or shrubs: lupin, Syn. genus Lupinus |
| tree lupine | (n) evergreen shrub of the Pacific coast of the United States having showy yellow or blue flowers; naturalized in Australia, Syn. Lupinus arboreus |
| white lupine | (n) white-flowered Eurasian herb widely cultivated for forage and erosion control, Syn. Egyptian lupine, field lupine, Lupinus albus, wolf bean |
| wild lupine | (n) stout perennial of eastern and central North America having palmate leaves and showy racemose blue flowers, Syn. Indian beet, sundial lupine, Lupinus perennis, old-maid's bonnet |
| yellow lupine | (n) yellow-flowered European lupine cultivated for forage, Syn. Lupinus luteus |
| bluebonnet | (n) low-growing annual herb of southwestern United States (Texas) having silky foliage and blue flowers; a leading cause of livestock poisoning in the southwestern United States, Syn. buffalo clover, Lupinus subcarnosus, Texas bluebonnet |
| texas bluebonnet | (n) closely resembles Lupinus subcarnosus; southwestern United States (Texas), Syn. Lupinus texensis |
| Lupine | a. [ See Lupine, n. ] Wolfish; ravenous. Gauden. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Lupine | n. [ L. lupinus, lupinum, apparently fr. lupinus belonging to a wolf, fr. lupus a wolf; perh. so called because it was supposed to exhaust the soil: cf. F. lupin. Cf. Wolf. ] (Bot.) A leguminous plant of the genus Lupinus, especially Lupinus albus, the seeds of which have been used for food from ancient times. The common species of the Eastern United States is Lupinus perennis. There are many species in California. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Lupinin | n. (Chem.) A glucoside found in the seeds of several species of lupine, and extracted as a yellowish white crystalline substance. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Lupinine | n. (Chem.) An alkaloid found in several species of lupine (Lupinus luteus, Lupinus albus, etc.), and extracted as a bitter crystalline substance, having a formula C10H19NO. Called also l-lupinine [ 1913 Webster ] Chemically it is a a bicyclic saturated quinolizine [ 1-R-trans ]-Octahydro-2H-quinolizine-1-methanol, with the structure:
CH2OH | /\ H /\ / \|/ \ | | | | N | \ / \ / \/ \/
[ MI11 ] [ PJC ] |
| Turlupin | n. [ F. ] (Fr. Eccl. Hist.) One of the precursors of the Reformation; -- a nickname corresponding to Lollard, etc. [ 1913 Webster ] |
