Definition of Genus Adansonia

1. Noun. Baobab; cream-of-tartar tree.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Adansonia

genus Acrocarpus
genus Acrocephalus
genus Acroclinium
genus Acrocomia
genus Acropora
genus Acrostichum
genus Actaea
genus Actias
genus Actinia
genus Actinidia
genus Actiniopteris
genus Actinomeris
genus Actinomyces
genus Actitis
genus Adalia
genus Adansonia (current term)
genus Addax
genus Adelges
genus Adenanthera
genus Adenium
genus Adenota
genus Adiantum
genus Adlumia
genus Adonis
genus Aedes
genus Aegiceras
genus Aegilops
genus Aegypius
genus Aegyptopithecus
genus Aeonium

Literary usage of Genus Adansonia

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

1. Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute, Or Philosophical by Victoria Institute (Great Britain) (1907)
"Then there is the genus Adansonia, to which the familiar Baobab-tree belongs. Of its four species, two are African, one belongs to Madagascar, ..."

2. Lost Crops of Africa: Volume Ii: Vegetables by National Research Council (U. S.) (2006)
"Nonetheless, Linnaeus honored his rival by naming the tree's genus Adansonia. Linnaeus sometimes selected names meant as insults, so the fact that baobab is ..."

3. The Encyclopædia of Geography: Comprising a Complete Description of the by Hugh Murray, William Wallace, Robert Jameson, William Jackson Hooker, William Swainson, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1837)
"with the peculiar genus Adansonia (the Baobab, which is the largest known tree in the world), belong to the characteristics of this country. ..."

4. The Edinburgh Journal of Science by Royal Society of Edinburgh (1826)
"... with the peculiar genus Adansonia, belong to the characteristics of this country, but I dare not name the region from thence. The interior of Africa is ..."

5. A Manual of Geographical Science: Mathematical, Physical, Historical, and by Matthew O'Brien, David Thomas Ansted, Julian R. Jackson, William Latham Bevan (1852)
"This region is characterized by a considerable number of grasses and sedges, and the peculiar genus Adansonia, the baobab, (the largest known tree in the ..."

6. The Edinburgh Journal of Science by Sir David Brewster (1826)
"... with the peculiar genus Adansonia, belong to the characteristics of this country, but I dare not name the region from thence. The interior of Africa is ..."

7. The Phytologist: A Popular Botanical Miscellany edited by George Luxford, Edward Newman (1843)
"As a genus Adansonia seems to be chiefly distinguished from Bom- bax (whose habit it has, and to which Linnaeus and Cavanilles say it is too nearly allied) ..."

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