Definition of Genus Dicentra

1. Noun. North American and Asian herbs with divided leaves and irregular flowers.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Dicentra

genus Derris
genus Descurainia
genus Desmanthus
genus Desmidium
genus Desmodium
genus Desmodus
genus Desmograthus
genus Deutzia
genus Diacalpa
genus Diadophis
genus Dialeurodes
genus Dianthus
genus Diapensia
genus Diapheromera
genus Dicamptodon
genus Dicentra (current term)
genus Diceros
genus Dichondra
genus Dicranopteris
genus Dicranum
genus Dicrostonyx
genus Dictamnus
genus Dictostylium
genus Dictyophera
genus Didelphis
genus Dieffenbachia
genus Diervilla
genus Difflugia
genus Digitalis

Literary usage of Genus Dicentra

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

1. Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse by Edward Step (1896)
"genus Dicentra DICENTRA (Greek, dis, two, and kentron, a spur or goad). A genus of about a dozen species of hardy herbaceous plants, natives of North ..."

2. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention (1903)
"The genus Dicentra, of which there are about fourteen species, is represented by three species in the northern United States, viz. ..."

3. Pharmaceutical Journal by Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1863)
"... genus is more especially characterised by its flowers having only one of the exterior petals saccate or spurred at the base; while the genus Dicentra, ..."

4. The Chicago Medical Journal and Examiner (1884)
"2 genera, 3 spe- genus Dicentra, D. cucullaria (Dutchman's Breeches); D. Canadensis (Squirrel-corn, Colic-weed). ..."

5. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons (1906)
"The arrangement of the essential organs in the genus Dicentra is very curious and interesting. The six stamens are borne in two companies of three each, ..."

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