Definition of Loranthus

1. Noun. Type genus of the Loranthaceae: 1 species.

Exact synonyms: Genus Loranthus
Generic synonyms: Dilleniid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Family Loranthaceae, Loranthaceae, Mistletoe Family
Member holonyms: Loranthus Europaeus, Mistletoe

Lexicographical Neighbors of Loranthus

Lophophora williamsii
Lophophorus
Lophosoria
Lophosoriaceae
Lopid
Lopingian
Lopressor
Lora
Lorado Taft
Lorain
Lorain's disease
Lorain-Levi dwarfism
Lorain-Levi infantilism
Lorain-Levi syndrome
Loranthaceae
Loranthus
Loranthus europaeus
Lorca
Lord's
Lord's Day
Lord's Prayer
Lord's Resistance Army
Lord's Supper
Lord's table
Lord Britten of Aldeburgh
Lord Chancellor
Lord George Gordon Byron
Lord High Chancellor
Lord Macaulay
Lord Mayor

Literary usage of Loranthus

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

1. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"The reduction goes further in Viscum articulatum and loranthus ... A similar development appears in loranthus penta- drus. If we compare it with that found ..."

2. Pharmacographia Indica: A History of the Principal Drugs of Vegetable Origin by William Dymock (1893)
"Viscum et loranthus, 8P« var- IQ the Pharmacopoeia or India, the leaves of a ... species of loranthus found on the Nilgiris, growing on Nux Vomica trees, ..."

3. Systematic Anatomy of the Dicotyledons: A Handbook for Laboratories of Pure by Hans Solereder (1908)
"Stone- cells are not uncommonly present in the primary cortex (loranthus, ... The structure of the wood has been examined in Viscum album, L., loranthus ..."

4. A Narrative of a Visit to the Mauritius and South Africa by James Backhouse (1844)
"Inquisitiveness.—Butterworth.—Visit of W. Fynn to N'capai.—Surprise at the power of conveying ideas by means of writing.—Dingaan.—Rocks. —Fires.—loranthus. ..."

5. The Forest Flora of North-west and Central India: A Handbook of the by John Lindsay Stewart, Dietrich Brandis (1874)
"This explains the curiously grooved cavities or cup-shaped hollows in the wood of trees which have been attacked by loranthus. Some species of Viscum throw ..."

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