Definition of Genus Alstonia

1. Noun. Genus of evergreen trees or shrubs with white funnel-shaped flowers and milky sap; tropical Africa to southeastern Asia and Polynesia.

Exact synonyms: Alstonia
Generic synonyms: Dicot Genus, Magnoliopsid Genus
Group relationships: Apocynaceae, Dogbane Family, Family Apocynaceae
Member holonyms: Alstonia Scholaris, Devil Tree, Dita, Dita Bark

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Alstonia

genus Alligator
genus Allionia
genus Allium
genus Allosaurus
genus Alnus
genus Alocasia
genus Aloe
genus Alopecurus
genus Alopex
genus Alopius
genus Alosa
genus Alouatta
genus Alpinia
genus Alsobia
genus Alsophila
genus Alstonia (current term)
genus Alstroemeria
genus Alternanthera
genus Althaea
genus Alyssum
genus Alytes
genus Amanita
genus Amaranthus
genus Amaryllis
genus Amauropelta
genus Amazona
genus Amberboa
genus Ambloplites
genus Amblyrhynchus
genus Ambrosia

Literary usage of Genus Alstonia

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

1. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign (1867)
"NOTES ON TWO SPECIES OF THE genus Alstonia, FROM NEW CALEDONIA AND NEW SOUTH WALES. Br GEORGE BENNETT, MD, FLS, ETC. R The Natural Order of plants, ..."

2. Scientific Memoirs: Selected from the Transactions of Foreign Academies of by Arthur Henfrey, Thomas Henry Huxley (1853)
"The genus Alstonia, R. Br., includes several species with left-wound segments of the flowers, and one other species in which the segments wind to the right ..."

3. King's American Dispensatory by John King, Harvey Wickes Felter, John Uri Lloyd (1905)
"The genus Alstonia comprises about twelve species, seven of them being given in Bentham's Flora of Australia. They are milk bearing shrubs or trees, ..."

4. Pamphlets on Forestry in the Philippine Islands (1916)
"Genus ALSTONIA. A genus of about five species, of which all but dita furnish wood practically identical in general appearance and structure. ..."

Other Resources:

Search for Genus Alstonia on Dictionary.com!Search for Genus Alstonia on Thesaurus.com!Search for Genus Alstonia on Google!Search for Genus Alstonia on Wikipedia!

Search