Definition of Genus Asclepias

1. Noun. Genus of chiefly North American perennial herbs: silkweed; milkweed.

Exact synonyms: Asclepias
Generic synonyms: Dicot Genus, Magnoliopsid Genus
Group relationships: Asclepiadaceae, Family Asclepiadaceae, Milkweed Family
Member holonyms: Milkweed, Silkweed

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Asclepias

genus Arnoseris
genus Arrhenatherum
genus Artamus
genus Artemia
genus Artemisia
genus Arthropteris
genus Artocarpus
genus Arum
genus Arundinaria
genus Arundo
genus Arvicola
genus Asarum
genus Ascaphus
genus Ascaridia
genus Ascaris
genus Asclepias (current term)
genus Ascophyllum
genus Asimina
genus Asio
genus Aspalathus
genus Asparagus
genus Aspergillus
genus Asperula
genus Asphodeline
genus Asphodelus
genus Aspidelaps
genus Aspidiotus
genus Aspidistra
genus Aspidophoroides
genus Aspis

Literary usage of Genus Asclepias

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

1. Rubber-content of North American Plants by Harvey Monroe Hall, Frances Louise Long (1921)
"THE genus Asclepias, OH TRUE MILKWEEDS. Since most of the species here discussed belong to the genus Asclepias, a preliminary account of this group of ..."

2. Appleton's New Practical Cyclopedia: A New Work of Reference Based Upon the by George J Hagar (1910)
"... and lowlands) belong to the genus Asclepias. The most showy of native US milkweeds is A. tuberosa, more generally called butterfly weed and pleurisy ..."

3. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1902)
"A few fossil-leaves from rocks of Tertiary age at Kumi, Greece, have been referred to in the genus Asclepias. ..."

4. A Dictionary of Pharmaceutical Science: A Guide for the Pharmaceutist by Hiram V. Sweringen (1882)
"... That family or natural order of plants to which belongs the genus Asclepias. ASCLEPIAS. A genus of plants. ..."

5. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"... into wax-like or granular masses (pollinia), etc., as explained under the typical genus Asclepias. ..."

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