Definition of Genus Sabbatia

1. Noun. Genus of smooth slender North American herbs with showy flowers.

Generic synonyms: Dicot Genus, Magnoliopsid Genus
Group relationships: Family Gentianaceae, Gentian Family, Gentianaceae
Member holonyms: Sabbatia

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Sabbatia

genus Rubia
genus Rubus
genus Rudbeckia
genus Rumex
genus Rumohra
genus Rupicapra
genus Rupicola
genus Ruptiliocarpon
genus Ruscus
genus Russula
genus Ruta
genus Rutilus
genus Rynchops
genus Rypticus
genus Sabal
genus Sabbatia (current term)
genus Sabinea
genus Saccharomyces
genus Saccharum
genus Sadleria
genus Sagina
genus Sagitta
genus Sagittaria
genus Sagittarius
genus Saiga
genus Saimiri
genus Saintpaulia
genus Salamandra
genus Salicornia
genus Salix

Literary usage of Genus Sabbatia

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

1. American Medical Botany: Being a Collection of the Native Medicinal Plants by Jacob Bigelow (1817)
"... particularly in the anthers and stigma ; I have followed the example of Pursh and others in referring it to the genus Sabbatia of Adanson. ..."

2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1903)
"In the genus Sabbatia the handsome flowers are wheel-shaped, and the coloration seems to have changed from yellowish to white or pink, or pink-purple. ..."

3. Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Or, Flower-garden Displayedby John Sims by John Sims (1814)
"... one-celled : receptacles of the feeds 2, lateral, divided into two revolute branches. Seeds globular. The genus SABBATIA was ..."

4. A sketch of the principal families of plants, explanatory of A tabular view by Arthur Henfrey (1855)
"G. lutea, the yellow Gentian of the European mountains, yields the bitter root used in medicine. Lisianthus is a handsome stove genus. Sabbatia, a North ..."

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