Definition of Apios

1. Noun. Twining perennial North American plants.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Apios

Aphis fabae
Aphis pomi
Aphriza
Aphriza virgata
Aphrodite
Aphroditus
Aphrophora
Aphrophora saratogensis
Aphyllanthaceae
Aphyllanthes
Aphyllophorales
Apia
Apician
Apidae
Apios (current term)
Apios americana
Apios tuberosa
Apis mellifera
Apis mellifera adansonii
Apis mellifera scutellata
Apium
Apium graveolens
Apium graveolens dulce
Apium graveolens rapaceum
Aplectrum
Aplectrum hyemale
Aplodontia
Aplodontia rufa
Aplodontiidae

Literary usage of Apios

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Ladies' Flower-garden of Ornamental Perennials by Loudon (Jane) (1843)
"The name of Apios is taken from Apion, a pear, in reference to the shape of the tuberous roots. There is only one species in the genus, which was formerly ..."

2. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa ( Gray, Merritt Lyndon Fernald, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson (1908)
"... flowers brown-purple, violet-scented; standard unappendaged at the summit. {A. Apios MacM.)—Thickets, NB to Fla., Minn., Kan., and La. July-Sept. 2. ..."

3. The American Botanist: A Monthly Journal for the Plant Lover edited by Willard Nelson Clute (1907)
"REPRODUCTION IN Apios TUBEROSA. BY EE BALDWIN*. IN an article on the fruiting of Apios tuberosa published in the Botanist, last fall, it was noted that in ..."

4. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"G.Apios, Standard produced at the apex into a thickened appendage : tubers large, ... Apios tuberosa Moench, Meth. 165. 1794. Apios Apios MacM. Bull. Torr. ..."

5. The Power of Movement in Plants by Charles Darwin, Francis Darwin (1900)
"... movements of leaves—Heliotropic movements of Beta, Solanum, Zea, and Avena—Heliotropic movements towards an obscure light in Apios, Brassica, Phalaris, ..."

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