Definition of Genus Cyathea

1. Noun. Type genus of the Cyatheaceae: tree ferns of the tropical rain forest to temperate woodlands.

Exact synonyms: Cyathea
Generic synonyms: Fern Genus
Group relationships: Cyatheaceae, Family Cyatheaceae
Member holonyms: Black Tree Fern, Cyathea Medullaris, Sago Fern, Silver Tree Fern

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Cyathea

genus Cucurbita
genus Culcita
genus Culex
genus Cuminum
genus Cuniculus
genus Cuon
genus Cupressus
genus Curcuma
genus Cursorius
genus Curtisia
genus Cuscuta
genus Cuterebra
genus Cyamopsis
genus Cyamus
genus Cyanocitta
genus Cyathea (current term)
genus Cycas
genus Cyclamen
genus Cycloloma
genus Cyclopes
genus Cyclophorus
genus Cyclops
genus Cyclopterus
genus Cyclosorus
genus Cycnoches
genus Cydonia
genus Cygnus
genus Cymbidium
genus Cynancum
genus Cynara

Literary usage of Genus Cyathea

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

1. The Philippine Journal of Science by Philippines Bureau of Science (1908)
"I have therefore treated them all as species of one genus, Cyathea, and have merely indicated, for the convenience of those to whom this construction may at ..."

2. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1907)
"... common lowland species of the West Indies, is the type of this genus. Cyathea is the type of the family Cyatheaceae containing most of the tree-ferns. ..."

3. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1914)
"Modern fern students are now reaching the conclusion that Dicksonia is not only very distinct from the genus Cyathea and its relatives, but belongs in a ..."

4. A Contribution to the Flora of Australia by William Woolls (1867)
"The genus Cyathea is nearly allied to Alsophila, but it differs in having an involucre, " which is globose, inferior, ..."

5. The London Journal of Botany by William Jackson Hooker (1842)
"genus Cyathea, with which it also coincides in the sporangia being compressed; but its general character induces me to retain it in ..."

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