Definition of Genus Mammillaria

1. Noun. Large genus of cacti characterized chiefly by nipple-shaped protuberances or tubercles on their surface.

Generic synonyms: Caryophylloid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Cactaceae, Cactus Family, Family Cactaceae
Member holonyms: Mammillaria

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Mammillaria

genus Malaclemys
genus Malacosoma
genus Malacothamnus
genus Malaxis
genus Malcolmia
genus Mallotus
genus Malope
genus Malopterurus
genus Malosma
genus Malpighia
genus Malus
genus Malva
genus Malvastrum
genus Malvaviscus
genus Mammea
genus Mammillaria (current term)
genus Mammut
genus Mammuthus
genus Mandevilla
genus Mandragora
genus Mandrillus
genus Manduca
genus Mangifera
genus Manihot
genus Manilkara
genus Manis
genus Manta
genus Mantis
genus Maranta
genus Marasmius

Literary usage of Genus Mammillaria

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

1. Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants by Sir Joseph Paxton (1838)
"Mackie, and, like the preceding species, has a considerable affinity with the genus Mammillaria; but is a much more neatly made and elegant species; ..."

2. The Student, and Intellectual Observer (1871)
"... name of Turk's Cap Cactus, is derived from the resemblance to a Turk's Cap of the red coloured cylindrical flowering portion. The genus Mammillaria ..."

3. Transactions of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society.: Horticultural Hall by Massachusetts Horticultural Society, W.D. Ticknor & Co, James Englebert Teschemacher (1885)
"The genus Mammillaria is represented by thirty-seven species and varieties; all nice and compact plants, usually with short spines. ..."

4. The Gardener's Magazine and Register of Rural and Domestic Improvement by J C Loudon (1839)
"... but Mr. Beaton asserts that all the sections of the genus Mammillaria have not only a woody axis, ..."

5. Home Gardening: A Manual for the Amateur by William D. Drury (1898)
"The genus Mammillaria ought certainly to be represented. One curious though distinct kind is M. bicolor, whose fine white spines are such a feature. ..."

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