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Definition of Genus Taxus
1. Noun. Yews.
Generic synonyms: Gymnosperm Genus
Group relationships: Family Taxaceae, Taxaceae, Yew Family
Member holonyms: English Yew, Old World Yew, Taxus Baccata, California Yew, Pacific Yew, Taxus Brevifolia, Western Yew, Japanese Yew, Taxus Cuspidata, Florida Yew, Taxus Floridana
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Taxus
Literary usage of Genus Taxus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1878)
"... genus Taxus is distinguished by a solitary terminal seed, surrounded by a
succulent cup. The species are diffused over the whole northern parts of the ..."
2. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"In the genus Taxus (Fig. 350) the female flower is composed of a single ovule
which forms the end of a small shoot, and below the ovule there are a number ..."
3. A Manual of Palaeontology for the Use of Students with a General by Henry Alleyne Nicholson, Richard Lydekker (1889)
"Many of these genera have the leaves divided into long slender slips, but in the
true Yews the leaves are simply acicular. The existing genus Taxus, ..."
4. The Yew-trees of Great Britain and Ireland by John Lowe (1897)
"CHAPTER I Taxus baccata, L.—Varieties—Etymology of Yew—Epithets. Taxus baccata,
Linn., the Common Yew, belongs to the genus Taxus, the type of the natural ..."
5. Proceedings, International Conference on Plant Breeding and Hybridization by C. Raveret-Wattel (1904)
"This cannot be said of the genus Taxus, however. The common European yew, Taxus
baccata, needs a protected situation to enable it to pull through a severe ..."
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