Definition of Genus Cordia

1. Noun. Tropical deciduous or evergreen trees or shrubs of the family Boraginaceae.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Cordia

genus Conradina
genus Consolida
genus Contopus
genus Conuropsis
genus Convallaria
genus Convolvulus
genus Conyza
genus Copernicia
genus Coprinus
genus Coptis
genus Coracias
genus Coragyps
genus Corallorhiza
genus Corchorus
genus Cordaites
genus Cordia (current term)
genus Cordyline
genus Cordylus
genus Coregonus
genus Coreopsis
genus Coriandrum
genus Corixa
genus Cornus
genus Corokia
genus Coronilla
genus Corozo
genus Cortaderia
genus Corticium
genus Cortinarius
genus Corvus

Literary usage of Genus Cordia

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

1. Maryland Geological Survey by Maryland Geological Survey (1916)
"... are tropical led to an extended search among existing tropical American forms, with the result that the present species is referred to the genus Cordia. ..."

2. The Indigenous Trees of the Hawaiian Islands by Joseph Francis Charles Rock (1913)
"In Hawaii 3 genera are represented, of which only the genus Cordia has a single cosmopolitan species ... The genus Cordia consists of about 230 species ..."

3. Reports Dealing with the Systematic Geology and Paleontology of Maryland by Maryland Geological Survey (1916)
"... with the result that the present species is referred to the genus Cordia. The latter has upwards of two hundred existing species of the tropics and ..."

4. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society by Linnean Society of London (1857)
"... differs from Griffith's description in its alternate (not opposite) leaves, and is an undoubted species of the genus Cordia, as now generally understood ..."

5. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1869)
"Nearly all the species of the' family have been huddled into the single genus Cordia, because no one has taken the trouble to ascertain their true ..."

6. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1878)
"... and to the genus Cordia; which also contains some valuable timber-trees, particularly the Spanish Elm, Prince Wood, or Bois de Chypre of the West Indies ..."

7. Notes of a Botanist on the Amazon & Andes: Being Records of Travel on the by Richard Spruce, Alfred Russel Wallace (1908)
"The genus Cordia (Boraginaceae) affords many examples of this structure. One of the rather artificial sections into which Cordia is divided in the ..."

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