Definition of Eustoma

1. Noun. Small genus of herbs of warm regions of southern North America to northern South America.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Eustoma

Eurypterida
Eusebian
Eusebians
Eusebius
Eusebius Hieronymus
Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus
Eusebius of Caesarea
Eusimulium
Euskadi ta Askatasuna
Euskara
Eustace
Eustachian
Eustachian tube
Eustachian tubes
Eustachio
Eustoma (current term)
Eustoma grandiflorum
Euston
Eustrongylus
Eutamias
Eutamius asiaticus
Eutamius sibiricus
Euterpe
Euterpe oleracea
Euterpean
Euthemia
Eutheria
Euthynnus
Euthynnus pelamis
Eutopia

Literary usage of Eustoma

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

1. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"... because the placent» are connivent in the middle of the cell, but in Eustoma the placent» are separated from each other by a considerable space. ..."

2. The Paradisus Londinensis: Or Coloured Figures of Plants Cultivated in the ...by Richard Anthony Salisbury, William Hooker by Richard Anthony Salisbury, William Hooker (1805)
"Silene-leaved Eustoma. ORDO NATURALIS. Gentianae. Juss. Gen. p. 141. ... I only know one more species of Eustoma, which is the Gentiana ..."

3. The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley by Thomas Henry Huxley, Michael Foster (1902)
"I find this structure only in the genus Eustoma and in Gentiana lutea. ... Neither Eustoma nor Gentiana lutea are, theoretically speaking, ..."

4. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1851)
"P. eustoma grows in both places, and so far as soil is concerned they are very likely to produce P. ..."

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