Definition of Genus isatis

1. Noun. Old World genus of annual to perennial herbs: woad.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Isatis

genus Iliamna
genus Illecebrum
genus Illicium
genus Impatiens
genus Inachis
genus Indigofera
genus Indri
genus Inga
genus Inula
genus Ipomoea
genus Irena
genus Iresine
genus Iridoprocne
genus Iris
genus Irvingia
genus Isatis
genus Ischigualastia
genus Isoetes
genus Isopyrum
genus Istiophorus
genus Isurus
genus Iva
genus Ixia
genus Ixobrychus
genus Ixodes
genus Jabiru
genus Jacksonia
genus Jacquinia
genus Jaculus
genus Jambos

Literary usage of Genus isatis

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

1. A History of the Vegetable Kingdom: Embracing the Physiology of Plants, with by William Rhind (1857)
"... as in cheiranthus, but sometimes the valves are without partitions, and the pods consequently are celled, as in the genus isatis. ..."

2. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"The genus isatis comprises 25 or 30 species, all of the old world. The woad has been so long in cultivation that its native country is uncertain; ..."

3. A System of Physiological Botany by Patrick Keith (1816)
"... but sometimes the valves are without partitions, and the pod consequently one-celled, as in the genus Isatis. Defini- ARTICLE 7- The Legume. ..."

4. General Medical Chemistry: For the Use of Practitioners of Medicine by Rudolph August Witthaus (1881)
"This substance was formerly considered as identical with indican, a glucoside existing in plants of the genus Isatis, which, when decomposed, yields, ..."

5. An Essay on the Culture and Manufacture of Indigo: To which was Awarded the by John Shortt (1862)
"Isatis Tinctoria or Woad, is the species cultivated in genus isatis. ,, , _, . _ Europe and China. ..."

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