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Definition of Genus menispermum
1. Noun. Climbing herbs.
Generic synonyms: Magnoliid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Family Menispermaceae, Menispermaceae, Moonseed Family
Member holonyms: Canada Moonseed, Common Moonseed, Menispermum Canadense, Yellow Parilla
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Menispermum
Literary usage of Genus menispermum
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Chinese Repository edited by Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Willaims (1839)
"The genus Menispermum has given it.-, name to a family of plants and shrubs,
remarkable for their climbing habits, and the intensely bitter taste of their ..."
2. Origin and History of All the Pharmacopeial Vegetable Drugs, Chemicals and by John Uri Lloyd (1921)
"... stem, and general floral appearance. One author, Roxburgh, (559), (Flora
Ind., Vol. 3, p. 807), has placed the plant in the genus Menispermum. ..."
3. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1830)
"... was closely allied to the genus Menispermum. The individual growing at Madras
was a male. Willdenow and Sprengel inserted the plant in their systems ..."
4. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1830)
"... allied to the genus Menispermum. The individual 'wing at Madras was a male.
Willdenow and Sprengel in- rted the plant in their systems under the name of ..."
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