Definition of Genus Stachys

1. Noun. Large genus of usually woolly or hairy herbs or subshrubs or shrubs; temperate eastern hemisphere; tropical Australasia.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Stachys

genus Spiranthes
genus Spirillum
genus Spirochaeta
genus Spirodela
genus Spirogyra
genus Spirula
genus Spizella
genus Spodoptera
genus Spondias
genus Sporobolus
genus Spraguea
genus Spyeria
genus Squalus
genus Squatina
genus Squilla
genus Stachys (current term)
genus Stanhopea
genus Stanleya
genus Stapelia
genus Staphylea
genus Staphylococcus
genus Staurikosaurus
genus Steatornis
genus Steganopus
genus Stegosaurus
genus Stelis
genus Stellaria
genus Stenocarpus
genus Stenochlaena
genus Stenopelmatus

Literary usage of Genus Stachys

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

1. Exploring the Borderlands: Documents Of The Committee On Common Problems Of by Joe Cain (2004)
"The genus Stachys is also strictly herbaceous. One species group particularly deserves our attention. The greater part of this section is cordilleran, ..."

2. Edwards's Botanical Register, Or, Ornamental Flower-garden and Shrubbery by Sydenham Edwards, John Lindley (1829)
"... characters appears to me sufficiently important for the generic separation of plants otherwise resembling each other. The genus Stachys belongs to the ..."

3. Natal Plants: Descriptions and Figures of Natal Indigenous Plants, with ...by John Medley Wood, Maurice Smethurst Evans by John Medley Wood, Maurice Smethurst Evans (1902)
"The genus Stachys includes some 200 species which are widely dispersed, about 30 or more are found in South Africa, and of these 10 have been identified as ..."

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