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Definition of Genus echium
1. Noun. A genus of bristly herbs and shrubs of the family Boraginaceae.
Generic synonyms: Plant Genus
Group relationships: Borage Family, Boraginaceae, Family Boraginaceae
Member holonyms: Blue Devil, Blue Thistle, Blueweed, Echium Vulgare, Viper's Bugloss
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Echium
Literary usage of Genus echium
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society by Royal Horticultural Society (Great Britain). (1896)
"... genus Echium found in the islands. E. simplex, " the Pride of Teneriffe," has
a single dense spike of flowers about 8 feet high ; others are shrubby and ..."
2. Magazine of Zoology and Botany by Prideaux John Selby, George Johnston, William Jardine (1838)
"Vol. xi. Parts 2 and 3. (Continued from Vol. ip 588.) BUCK on the Capo Plants of
the genus Echium. ..."
3. The Encyclopædia of Geography: Comprising a Complete Description of the by Hugh Murray, William Wallace, Robert Jameson, William Jackson Hooker, William Swainson, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1837)
"... with vivid blossoms, particularly belonging to the genus Echium ; numerous
species of Celastrus, ..."
4. A System of Physiological Botany by Patrick Keith (1816)
"the genus Echium it is crustaceous, and in Myosotis it is hard as flint. The figure
of the nut-shell is Figure. generally roundish or oval ; but in the ..."
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