Definition of Genus Araucaria

1. Noun. A genus of the araucaria family.

Generic synonyms: Gymnosperm Genus
Group relationships: Araucaria Family, Araucariaceae, Family Araucariaceae
Member holonyms: Araucaria

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Araucaria

genus Aporocactus
genus Appendicularia
genus Aptenodytes
genus Apteryx
genus Apus
genus Aquila
genus Aquilegia
genus Ara
genus Arabidopsis
genus Arabis
genus Arachis
genus Aralia
genus Aramus
genus Aranea
genus Araneus
genus Araucaria (current term)
genus Araujia
genus Arbutus
genus Arca
genus Arcella
genus Arceuthobium
genus Archaeopteryx
genus Archaeornis
genus Archeopteryx
genus Archidiskidon
genus Archilochus
genus Architeuthis
genus Archosargus
genus Arctictis
genus Arctium

Literary usage of Genus Araucaria

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

1. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1902)
"The type genus Araucaria appears first in rocks of Lower Jurassic Age ; it reached a considerable degree of expansion in Cretaceous time all over northern ..."

2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1904)
"Sir William Thiselton-Dyer pointed out, in a lecture on plant-distribution, delivered in 1878, that the genus Araucaria appears to have been extinct in a ..."

3. Geology and Mineralogy Considered with Reference to Natural Theology by William Buckland (1841)
"A fossil cone referable to Conifera, and possibly to the genus Araucaria, from the Lias of Lyme Regis, is represented at Plate 89 of the same work. ..."

4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1896)
"The genus Araucaria contains ten species, all South American and Australasian. Fitzroya Patagónica occurs in Chile and F. Archen in Tasmania. ..."

5. Reports Dealing with the Systematic Geology and Paleontology of Maryland by Maryland Geological Survey (1911)
"... previous to his time to the genus Araucaria to which many of them are undoubtedly related. Subsequent workers have used the genus ..."

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