Definition of Genus Convallaria

1. Noun. Sometimes placed in family Convallariaceae: lily of the valley.

Exact synonyms: Convallaria
Generic synonyms: Liliid Monocot Genus
Group relationships: Family Liliaceae, Liliaceae, Lily Family
Member holonyms: Convallaria Majalis, Lily Of The Valley, May Lily

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Convallaria

genus Conepatus
genus Conferva
genus Conilurus
genus Coniogramme
genus Conium
genus Connarus
genus Connochaetes
genus Conocarpus
genus Conoclinium
genus Conopodium
genus Conradina
genus Consolida
genus Contopus
genus Conuropsis
genus Convallaria (current term)
genus Convolvulus
genus Conyza
genus Copernicia
genus Coprinus
genus Coptis
genus Coracias
genus Coragyps
genus Corallorhiza
genus Corchorus
genus Cordaites
genus Cordia
genus Cordyline
genus Cordylus
genus Coregonus

Literary usage of Genus Convallaria

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

1. The North American Review by Making of America Project, Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1821)
"... of Orobanche Virginiana, in separating the genus Juglans into Juglans and Carya, in adopting Desfontaines' dismemberment of the genus Convallaria into ..."

2. Familiar Lectures on Botany, Practical, Elementary, and Physiological: With by Lincoln Phelps (1849)
"... but when the bases of the filaments are touched by any substance, they instantly spring towards the pistil. The genus Convallaria contains the ..."

3. Familiar Lectures on Botany: Explaining the Structure, Classification, and by Lincoln Phelps (1853)
"The genus Convallaria contains the lily of the valley, and many other delicate and interesting species. The name Solomon's-seal is supposed to have been ..."

4. Seven Years' Residence in the Great Deserts of North America by Emmanuel Domenech (1860)
"... the roots of the water- arrow of the genus Sagittaria, and those of the lily of the valley of the genus Convallaria, called by the Indians swan-potato. ..."

5. Familiar Lectures on Botany: Explaining the Structure, Classification, and by Lincoln Phelps (1854)
"The genus Convallaria contains the lily of the valley, aud many other delicate and interesting species. The name Solomon's-seal is supposed to have been ..."

6. A System of Physiological Botany by Patrick Keith (1816)
"Sometimes two or more are found to issue from the same poi nt; sometimes they are all turned to one side of the stem, as in the genus Convallaria (PI. II. ..."

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