Definition of Biscutella

1. Noun. Genus of Eurasian herbs and small shrubs: buckler mustard.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Biscutella

Birmingham screwdriver
Birnavirus
Biro
Birobidzhan
Bisayan
Bisayas
Biscay
Biscayan
Biscayans
Biscayne
Biscayne Bay
Biscayne National Park
Bischof
Bischof's myelotomy
Biscutalla laevigata
Biscutella (current term)
Bishkek
Bishnupriya Manipuri
Bishop's sphygmoscope
Bishop Barker
Bishop Barkers
Bishop Berkeley
Bishop Rock
Bishop Ulfila
Bishop Ulfilas
Bishop Wulfila
Bishop of Rome
Bisiac
Biskek
Biskra boil

Literary usage of Biscutella

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

1. The London Journal of Botany by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1845)
"This genus scarcely differs from Biscutella, with which it might perhaps, without much violence, be united. It is distinguished by the erect sepals, ..."

2. Hortus Kewensis; Or, A Catalogue of the Plants Cultivated in the Royal by William Aiton (1812)
"Biscutella auriculata. Willden. sp. pi. 3. p. 472. Schkuhr handb. 2. p. 237- t. 182. Ear-podded Buckler-mustard. Nat. of France and Italy. Cult. ..."

3. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1898)
"On a Discontinuous Variation occurring in Biscutella ... The observations recorded in this paper were made upon Biscutella ..."

4. Narrative of Travels and Discoveries in Northern and Central Africa: In the by Dixon Denham, Hugh Clapperton, Walter Oudney, Abraham V. Salamé, Robert Brown, Carl Dietrich Eberhard König (1826)
"But in Biscutella the embryo, with reference to its usual direction in the family, is not really inverted, the radicle being still placed above the ..."

5. A Contribution to Our Knowledge of Seedlings by John Lubbock (1892)
"... Cochlearia, Biscutella, Thlaspi, Iberis, Cakile, and Chorispora. The seeds of the genera just mentioned further differ amongst themselves in being ovoid ..."

6. The Ladies Flower-garden of Ornamental Annuals by Loudon (Jane) (1842)
"Cell« adnate laterally to the axis. Style long, permanent. Embryo inverted.—(G. Don.} 1.—Biscutella HISPIDA, Dec. ..."

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