Definition of Entelea

1. Noun. A genus of evergreen shrub that grows in New Zealand.

Exact synonyms: Genus Entelea
Generic synonyms: Dilleniid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Family Tiliaceae, Linden Family, Tiliaceae

Lexicographical Neighbors of Entelea

Enrolled Bill
Enrolled Bills
Enron
Ens.
Ensete
Ensete ventricosum
Ensis
Entamoeba buccalis
Entamoeba coli
Entamoeba gingivalis
Entamoeba hartmanni
Entamoeba moshkovskii
Entandrophragma
Entandrophragma cylindricum
Entebbe
Entelea
Entemopoxvirus
Enter
Enterobacter
Enterobacter aerogenes
Enterobacteriaceae
Enterobius vermicularis
Enterocytozoon
Enterocytozoon bieneusi
Enterolobium
Enterolobium cyclocarpa
Enteromonas
Enterprise Java Beans
Enters
Entner-Douderoff pathway

Literary usage of Entelea

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

1. The Maori Race by Edward Tregear (1904)
"Some were of immense length; one example measured 2400 feet long by 30 feet deep. They were all fitted with floats of buoyant wood (whau: entelea ..."

2. A Contribution to Our Knowledge of Seedlings by John Lubbock (1892)
"entelea has the cotyledons nearly flat and the radicle inflexed or but slightly bent; the embryo of Spar- mannia is plicate or nearly flat and straight; ..."

3. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1842)
"The experiment was repeated several times with like success, as also with the pedunculus of entelea arborescens, R. Br. This phaenomenon is explained by the ..."

4. Maori Lore: The Traditions of the Maori People, with the More Important of by George Grey (1904)
"... (Sicyos angulatus), and the aute grew into the whau (entelea arborescens), and the para grew into the ..."

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