Definition of Bonamia

1. a parasite that attacks oysters [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bonamia

bona fide
bona fides
bona peritura
bona roba
bona robas
bona vacantia
bonaccordite
bonaci
bonacis
bonacon
bonacons
bonafide
bonamani
bonamano
bonamia (current term)
bonamias
bonanza
bonanzas
bonasus
bonasuses
bonattite
bonavist
bonbon
bonbons
bonce
boncer
bonces
boncilate

Literary usage of Bonamia

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)
"bonamia aquatica A. Gray, Man. Ed. 5, 376. 1867. ... bonamia Pickeringii A. Gray, Man. Ed. 5, 376. 1867. ..."

2. Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gamopetalae, Being a Second Edition by Asa Gray (1886)
"bonamia ... bonamia. aquatica, Gray, 1. c. — Wet pine barrens and margin of ponds, North Carolina to Texas. ..."

3. Flora of the Hawaiian Islands: A Description of Their Phanerogams and by William Hillebrand (1888)
"Cray luis united both genera under the older name bonamia. The mucilaginous layer, which covers the entire seed in our species, does not seem to be of the ..."

4. Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States: Including the District by Asa Gray, Sereno Watson (1889)
"(bonamia aquatica, Gray.) — Wet pine barrens and margins of ponds, NC to Tex., ... middle) exserted from the open white corolla, (bonamia Pickeringii, Gray. ..."

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