Definition of Genus epacris

1. Noun. Type genus of the Epacridaceae: Australian heath.

Generic synonyms: Dilleniid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Epacridaceae, Epacris Family, Family Epacridaceae
Member holonyms: Epacris

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Epacris

genus Encephalartos
genus Encyclia
genus Endamoeba
genus Engelmannia
genus Engraulis
genus Enhydra
genus Ensete
genus Ensis
genus Entandrophragma
genus Entelea
genus Enterobius
genus Enterolobium
genus Entoloma
genus Entomophthora
genus Eoraptor
genus Epacris
genus Ephedra
genus Ephestia
genus Ephippiorhynchus
genus Epidendrum
genus Epigaea
genus Epilachna
genus Epilobium
genus Epimedium
genus Epinephelus
genus Epipactis
genus Epiphyllum
genus Epipremnum
genus Episcia
genus Eptatretus

Literary usage of Genus epacris

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

1. Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse by Edward Step (1897)
"genus epacris EPACRIS (Greek, cpi, upon, and akris, tlie summit of a mountain). A genus of about twenty-six species of erect, greenhouse shrubs, ..."

2. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"LHB The genus Epacris (though perhaps not as well known as the Ericas, with which they are usually grown, requiring the same culture) furnishes the cool ..."

3. Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants by Sir Joseph Paxton (1838)
"It is almost needless to add, that the various species of this beautiful genus (Epacris) contribute- more (both by the elegance and simplicity of their ..."

4. 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)
"The genus Epacris, with its allied genera, seems to be almost as numerous, and to hold the same rank in New Holland, as the Heaths do at the Cape. ..."

5. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People by Ephraim Chambers (1870)
"... of which some (of the genus Epacris) now take their place with heaths among the favorite ornaments of our green-houses. ..."

6. The British Florist: Or, Lady's Journal of Horticulture (1846)
"The general aspect of the plant is not strikingly dissimilar from many species of the kindred genus Epacris; ..."

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