Definition of Genus Empetrum

1. Noun. Crowberries.

Exact synonyms: Empetrum
Generic synonyms: Dicot Genus, Magnoliopsid Genus
Group relationships: Crowberry Family, Empetraceae, Family Empetraceae
Member holonyms: Crowberry

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Empetrum

genus Eleocharis
genus Elephantopus
genus Elephas
genus Elettaria
genus Eleusine
genus Eleutherodactylus
genus Eliomys
genus Elodea
genus Elops
genus Elsholtzia
genus Elymus
genus Emberiza
genus Embothrium
genus Emilia
genus Emmanthe
genus Empetrum (current term)
genus Encelia
genus Enceliopsis
genus Encephalartos
genus Encyclia
genus Endamoeba
genus Engelmannia
genus Engraulis
genus Enhydra
genus Ensete
genus Ensis
genus Entandrophragma
genus Entelea
genus Enterobius
genus Enterolobium

Literary usage of Genus Empetrum

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

1. Memoirs by Gray Herbarium, Harvard University Gray Herbarium (1917)
"With the exception of this northern circumpolar species, the only living members of the genus Empetrum (map 33) are confined to two remote areas: the region ..."

2. The Encyclopædia of Geography: Comprising a Complete Description of the by Hugh Murray, William Wallace, Robert Jameson, William Jackson Hooker, William Swainson, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1837)
"... there are only two shrubby plants on the island, both of which belong to the genus Empetrum, and may be but varieties of one species. ..."

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