Definition of Genus salix

1. Noun. A large and widespread genus varying in size from small shrubs to large trees: willows.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Salix

genus Sabal
genus Sabbatia
genus Sabinea
genus Saccharomyces
genus Saccharum
genus Sadleria
genus Sagina
genus Sagitta
genus Sagittaria
genus Sagittarius
genus Saiga
genus Saimiri
genus Saintpaulia
genus Salamandra
genus Salicornia
genus Salix
genus Salmo
genus Salmonella
genus Salpa
genus Salpichroa
genus Salpiglossis
genus Salpinctes
genus Salsola
genus Salvadora
genus Salvelinus
genus Salvia
genus Salvinia
genus Sambucus
genus Samia
genus Samolus

Literary usage of Genus salix

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

1. Proceedings by Geologists' Association (1878)
"The genus Salix is a singularly variable one, and should supply ... 2), the genus Salix consists of 19 sub-generic groups, containing 160 species, ..."

2. Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum: Or, The Trees and Shrubs of Britain by John Claudius Loudon (1854)
"The great master in the genus Salix may be considered Professor Koch, ... The manner in which Koch obtained his knowledge of the genus Salix is thus ..."

3. The Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science by Iowa Academy of Science (1900)
"THE genus salix IN IOWA. CARLETON R. BALL. The genus Salix has long and justly been considered a difficult one to study. It is not that the genus is so ..."

4. The Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science by Iowa Academy of Science (1900)
"THE genus salix IN IOWA. CARLETON R. BALL. The genus Salix has long and justly been considered a dif- icult one to study. It is not that the genus is so ..."

5. A Bibliographical Catalogue of Books Privately Printed: Including Those of by John Martin (1834)
"The genus Salix is a tribe, of which it may perhaps be said, that they claim no peculiar interest, except to the botanical inquirer ..."

6. Florigraphia Britannica; Or, Engravings and Descriptions of the Flowering by Richard Deakin (1857)
"Fertile * The genus Salix comprises a numerous and most difficult tribe of plants. They are trees and shrubs, but mostly the latter, varying in height from ..."

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