Definition of Empetrum

1. Noun. Crowberries.

Exact synonyms: Genus Empetrum
Generic synonyms: Dicot Genus, Magnoliopsid Genus
Group relationships: Crowberry Family, Empetraceae, Family Empetraceae
Member holonyms: Crowberry

Lexicographical Neighbors of Empetrum

Emmitt
Emmott
Emmy
Emmy Noether
Emmys
Emory
Emory oak
Empedocles
Emperor Francis II
Emperor Napoleon III
Emperor of Rome
Emperor palm
Emperor palms
Empetraceae
Empetrum (current term)
Empire
Empire State
Empire State of the South
Empire day
Empirin
Empsonian
Empty Quiver
Emsworth
Emu novaehollandiae
Emydidae
En-lil
Enawene Nawe
Enbrel

Literary usage of Empetrum

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

1. The London Journal of Botany by William Jackson Hooker (1842)
"from Empetrum.* The latter is alpine, and in both its species presents the same general features and habit. The three former, on the contrary, ..."

2. Systematic Anatomy of the Dicotyledons: A Handbook for Laboratories of Pure by Hans Solereder, Dukinfield Henry Scott (1908)
"I have examined the axis in Empetrum, Corema album, ... The perforations of the vessels are scalariform (with as many as ten bars) in Empetrum, ..."

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