Definition of Cycloloma

1. Noun. A caryophyllaceous genus of the family Chenopodiaceae.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Cycloloma

Cycadophyta
Cycadophytina
Cycadopsida
Cycas
Cycas circinalis
Cycas revoluta
Cyclades
Cycladic
Cycladic civilisation
Cycladic civilization
Cycladic culture
Cyclamen hederifolium
Cyclamen neopolitanum
Cyclamen purpurascens
Cycliophora
Cycloloma (current term)
Cycloloma atriplicifolium
Cyclopean
Cyclopean architecture
Cyclopes
Cyclopes didactylus
Cyclophorus
Cyclophorus lingua
Cyclophyllidae
Cyclopteridae
Cyclopterus
Cyclopterus lumpus
Cyclosorus
Cyclospora
Cyclosporeae

Literary usage of Cycloloma

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

1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"... complete ring in the mealy endosperm. [Greek, circle-border, alluding to the calyx-wing.] A monotypic genus of north central North America. i. Cycloloma ..."

2. Rhodora by New England Botanical Club (1901)
"Cycloloma ON CAPE COD.—On August 22 last I collected in Orleans, Mass., a plant which was determined at the Gray Herbarium as Cycloloma platyphyllum, ..."

3. Flora of Pennsylvania by Thomas Conrad Porter (1903)
"Cycloloma. (Mao. p. 372 ; IF f. 1376 ) Along streams and on banks, Man. to the NW Terr., 111., Neb. and Ariz.—Pennsylvania: PHILADELPHIA, Fairmount I'ark. ..."

4. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1893)
"The Cycloloma is hairy, the Corispermum coriaceous, and but a few inches high. The order Gramínea? is well represented in this region, as well as farther ..."

5. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1911)
"Among such plants, which are especially common on the prairies and plains, are the winged pigweed (Cycloloma), the Russian thistle (Salsola Kali tenuifolia) ..."

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