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Definition of Genus Calophyllum
1. Noun. Genus of tropical evergreen trees.
Generic synonyms: Dilleniid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Clusiaceae, Family Clusiaceae, Family Guttiferae, Guttiferae, St John's Wort Family
Member holonyms: Poon, Calaba, Calophyllum Calaba, Santa Maria Tree, Calophyllum Longifolium, Maria, Calophyllum Candidissimum, Lancewood Tree, Laurelwood, Alexandrian Laurel, Calophyllum Inophyllum
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Calophyllum
Literary usage of Genus Calophyllum
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Indigenous Trees of the Hawaiian Islands by Joseph Francis Charles Rock (1913)
"The genus Calophyllum is here represented by only one cosmopolitan species. ...
The genus Calophyllum with its 55 species occurs in the old world, ..."
2. Pamphlets on Forestry in the Philippine Islands (1916)
"Genus CALOPHYLLUM. A genus of nearly 20 species in the Philippines, of which only
four are known to be large enough and of sufficiently wide distribution to ..."
3. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1903)
"... fruit of Mammea americana, a tree belonging to the Guttiferae, and allied to
the genus Calophyllum to which the '' Palo Maria'' of this island belongs. ..."
4. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.), Wild Flower Preservation Society of America (1903)
"... fruit of Mammea americana, a tree belonging to the Guttiferae, and allied to
the genus Calophyllum to which the '' Palo Maria'' of this island belongs. ..."
5. Wood: A Manual of the Natural History and Industrial Applications of the by George Simonds Boulger (1908)
"The genus Calophyllum, a species of which is represented in Plate XII., includes
most kinds of Poon. Passing on to woods having distinct annual rings ..."
6. A Text-book of Wood by Herbert Stone (1921)
"In the genus Calophyllum and in Celastrus acuminatus, on the contrary, the
parenchyma may occur in clearly visible dark-coloured lines which on a tangential ..."
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