Definition of Genus Amorpha

1. Noun. American herbs or shrubs usually growing in dry sunny habitats on prairies and hillsides.

Generic synonyms: Rosid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Papilionoideae, Subfamily Papilionoideae
Member holonyms: Amorpha

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Amorpha

genus Amauropelta
genus Amazona
genus Amberboa
genus Ambloplites
genus Amblyrhynchus
genus Ambrosia
genus Ambystoma
genus Ameiurus
genus Amelanchier
genus Amia
genus Amianthum
genus Ammobium
genus Ammodytes
genus Ammotragus
genus Amoeba
genus Amorpha (current term)
genus Amorphophallus
genus Amphibolips
genus Amphicarpa
genus Amphicarpaea
genus Amphioxus
genus Amphiprion
genus Amphisbaena
genus Amphisbaenia
genus Amphiuma
genus Amsinckia
genus Amsonia
genus Amygdalus
genus Anabas
genus Anabrus

Literary usage of Genus Amorpha

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

1. Trees, Shrubs and Vines of the Northeastern United States by Howard Elmore Parkhurst (1903)
"... blue and purple figure very little in nature's painting; so that the genus Amorpha, containing two or three species in the Park, is at least a novelty, ..."

2. The American Botanist edited by Willard Nelson Clute (1921)
"... the united petals and stamens in this genus. Amorpha means deformed or without shape as the flowers appear to be because of the absence of four petals. ..."

3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1902)
"... Boynton, "Studies in the genus Amorpha" ; Boynton, "Two New Southern Species of Coreopsis" ; Boynton, " Notes from a Collector's Field Book "; Harbison, ..."

4. Proceedings of the Pennsylvania Pharmaceutical Association at Its ... Annual by Pennsylvania Pharmaceutical Association (1889)
"The' plants are botanically closely related to the genus Amorpha, of which the indigenous A.fruticosa has a bark rich in tannin and contain- ing a brown-red ..."

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