Definition of Genus Gaylussacia

1. Noun. Deciduous or evergreen shrubs of North America: black huckleberries.

Exact synonyms: Gaylussacia
Generic synonyms: Dilleniid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Ericaceae, Family Ericaceae, Heath Family
Member holonyms: Huckleberry

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Gaylussacia

genus Gallirallus
genus Gallus
genus Gambelia
genus Gambusia
genus Garcinia
genus Gardenia
genus Garrulus
genus Gasterophilus
genus Gastroboletus
genus Gastrocybe
genus Gastrolobium
genus Gastrophryne
genus Gaultheria
genus Gavia
genus Gavialis
genus Gaylussacia (current term)
genus Gazania
genus Gazella
genus Geastrum
genus Gelechia
genus Gelsemium
genus Gempylus
genus Genetta
genus Genipa
genus Genista
genus Genlisea
genus Gentiana
genus Gentianella
genus Gentianopsis
genus Genyonemus

Literary usage of Genus Gaylussacia

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

1. The Shrubs of Northeastern America by Charles Stedman Newhall (1893)
"Mountain Holly, page 56. Cornel, alternate leaves, page 127. Groundsel Tree, page 154. genus Gaylussacia (Huckleberries and ..."

2. The Geology of the Corocoro Copper District of Bolivia by Joseph Theophilus Singewald, Edward Wilber Berry (1922)
"Engelhardt has described (i) a form from Potosi which he refers to the allied genus Gaylussacia but which may represent an allied species of Vaccinium. ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"HUCKLEBERRY, in botany, the popular name in the northeastern United States of the genus Gaylussacia, small branching shrubs resembling in habit the English ..."

4. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau (1906)
"Not only is this true of the family, but hereabouts of the genus Gaylussacia, or the huckleberries proper, alone. I do not know of a spot where any shrub ..."

5. The Life of Sir Charles J.F. Bunbury, Bart. by Charles James Fox Bunbury, Joseph Dalton Hooker (1906)
"... the Organ mountains they are of the sub-genus (Gaylussacia of Humboldt), which belongs specially to South America, and of which there is a species even ..."

6. The Encyclopedia of Practical Horticulture: A Reference System of Commercial by Granville Lowther, William Worthington (1914)
"... or Huckleberry It seems not quite settled where the name huckleberry originated as applied to a species of bush fruits of the genus Gaylussacia. ..."

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