Definition of Genus Ulex

1. Noun. Genus of Eurasian spiny shrubs: gorse.

Exact synonyms: Ulex
Generic synonyms: Rosid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Papilionoideae, Subfamily Papilionoideae
Member holonyms: Furze, Gorse, Irish Gorse, Ulex Europaeus, Whin

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Ulex

genus Turbatrix
genus Turnix
genus Turreae
genus Turritis
genus Tursiops
genus Tussilago
genus Tylenchus
genus Tympanuchus
genus Typha
genus Tyrannosaurus
genus Tyrannus
genus Tyto
genus Uca
genus Uintatherium
genus Ulex (current term)
genus Ulmus
genus Ulva
genus Uma
genus Umbellularia
genus Umbrina
genus Unio
genus Upupa
genus Urginea
genus Uria
genus Urocyon
genus Urocystis
genus Urophycis
genus Uropsilus
genus Urosaurus

Literary usage of Genus Ulex

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

1. Agricultural Botany: Theoretical and Practical by John Percival (1921)
"genus Ulex (done), (ii) Leaves flat. Calyx shortly two-lipped. Genus Genista (Dyers Weed). 5. Leaves digitate witu more than three leaflets. ..."

2. Agricultural Botany, Theoretical and Practical by John Percival (1913)
"genus Ulex (Gorse). (ii) Leaves flat. Calyx shortly two-lipped. Genus Genista (Dyer's Weed). 5. Leaves digitate with more than three leaflets. ..."

3. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science edited by Biologists Limited, The Company of. (1865)
"M. lupulina has a similar arrangement of fibres, and the same may be observed in the genus Ulex. In Loranthus the fibres are dispersed in small numbers, ..."

4. Trees: A Handbook of Forest-botany for the Woodlands and the Laboratory by Harry Marshall Ward, Percy Groom (1904)
"... hairy and stipulate leaves, proper to the group of Leguminosae to which the genus Ulex belongs. See p. 161. Sometimes the spines (branches) of older ..."

5. The Transactions of the Microscopical Society of London by Microscopical Society of London (1865)
"M. lupulina has a similar arrangement of fibres, and the same may be observed in the genus Ulex. In Loranthus the fibres are dispersed in small numbers, ..."

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