Definition of Schomburgkia

1. Noun. Genus of tropical American epiphytic orchids with showy racemose flowers.

Exact synonyms: Genus Schomburgkia
Generic synonyms: Liliopsid Genus, Monocot Genus
Group relationships: Family Orchidaceae, Orchid Family, Orchidaceae

Lexicographical Neighbors of Schomburgkia

Schmorl's ferric-ferricyanide reduction stain
Schmorl's jaundice
Schmorl's nodule
Schmorl's picrothionin stain
Schnabel
Schneider's first rank symptoms
Schneiderian
Schneidersitz
Schnoodle
Schnoodles
Schoenberg
Scholander apparatus
Scholesy
Scholz' disease
Schomburgk's deer
Schomburgkia
Schonbein
Schonbein's operation
Schonbein's test
Schonberg
Schonlein's disease
Schonlein's purpura
Schonlein-Henoch syndrome
Schoolcraft
Schoolman
Schoolmen
Schopenhauer
Schopenhauerian
Schott treatment
Schottky anomaly

Literary usage of Schomburgkia

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

1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"A generic name to designate the hybrids between schomburgkia and La?lia. ... schomburgkia (named for Dr. Schomburgk, naturalist and geographer, who explored ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americanaedited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1904)
"schomburgkia.— A genus of very large and curious plants with great flowers. schomburgkia crispum and S. undulatum are well known .species of South America ..."

3. List of Published Names of Plants Introduced to Cultivation: 1876 to 1896 by Kew Royal Botanic Gardens, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (1900)
"schomburgkia marginata im- marginata. <7A с. шт, i. 447.) S. Л var. with brown wavy ... schomburgkia t horn so nia mi. (#. C. 1887, ii. 38; Veitch. Man. ..."

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