Definition of Genus cocculus

1. Noun. Climbing plants or shrubs.

Exact synonyms: Cocculus
Generic synonyms: Magnoliid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Family Menispermaceae, Menispermaceae, Moonseed Family
Member holonyms: Carolina Moonseed, Cocculus Carolinus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Cocculus

genus Clethra
genus Clethrionomys
genus Clianthus
genus Cliftonia
genus Clinopodium
genus Clintonia
genus Clitocybe
genus Clitoria
genus Clostridium
genus Clupea
genus Clusia
genus Cnemidophorus
genus Cnicus
genus Cnidoscolus
genus Coccothraustes
genus Cocculus
genus Coccus
genus Coccyzus
genus Cochlearia
genus Cochlearius
genus Cocos
genus Codariocalyx
genus Codiaeum
genus Coeloglossum
genus Coelogyne
genus Coelophysis
genus Coereba
genus Coffea
genus Cola
genus Colaptes

Literary usage of Genus cocculus

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

1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1835)
"... the Menispermum Cocculus of Linnaeus, the Cocculus tuberosus of De Candolle, or the Cocculus indicus of commerce, is removed from the genus Cocculus as ..."

2. The Treasury of Botany: A Popular Dictionary of the Vegetable Kingdom; with by John Lindley (1866)
"... proposed by Miers, has been referred by Drs. Hooker and Thomson to the genus Cocculus, from which it differs only in the elongated drupe, ..."

3. Flora Indica: Being a Systematic Account of the Plants of British India by Joseph Dalton Hooker, Thomas Thomson (1855)
"The first important step in advance was made by Wight and Arnott, who in 1832 divided the Indian species of the genus Cocculus into sections according to ..."

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