Definition of Genus Digitalis

1. Noun. Genus of Eurasian herbs having alternate leaves and racemes of showy bell-shaped flowers.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Digitalis

genus Dicamptodon
genus Dicentra
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 (current term)
genus Digitaria
genus Dillenia
genus Dimetrodon
genus Dimocarpus
genus Dimorphotheca
genus Dinornis
genus Diodon
genus Diomedea
genus Dionaea
genus Dioon
genus Dioscorea
genus Diospyros
genus Diphylla
genus Dipladenia

Literary usage of Genus Digitalis

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

1. The American Botanist edited by Willard Nelson Clute (1921)
"... does not bear pollen and the plants may therefore be considered in good standing in the family. , According to Wood, the foxglove genus,Digitalis, ..."

2. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"The very inappropriate name of a genus (Digitalis) of about 18 species of beautiful half-hardy herbaceous biennial plants of the order ..."

3. Rural Affairs by John Jacob Thomas (1869)
"The larger sorts of course require much more room. Fig. 9.—Digitalis or Foxglove. DIGITALIS OR FOXGLOVE.—(Fig. 9.)—The genus Digitalis, named from ..."

4. Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Or, Flower-garden Displayed by John Sims (1819)
"Mr. NUTTALL has very properly remarked that the above generic character excludes the American species which approximate the genus DIGITALIS. ..."

5. The Chemist: A Monthly Journal of Chemical and Physical Science (1845)
"... in order to indicate that I have found it in several species of the genus digitalis, and even in other genera of the family of ..."

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