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Definition of Genus Erica

1. Noun. Large genus of low much-branched woody evergreens ranging from prostrate subshrubs to trees: true heaths.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Erica

Literary usage of Genus Erica

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

1. The British Florist: Or, Lady's Journal of Horticulture (1846)
"The Linnaean genus Erica has been subdivided into 22 genera, ... but has retained the greater number of the species under the original genus Erica, which, ..."

2. The American Botanist edited by Willard Nelson Clute (1915)
"In Africa, the genus Erica is represented by ... The typical heath flower, at least the typical flower of the heath genus, Erica, has a narrowly bell-shaped ..."

3. The American Gardener's Magazine by C M Hovey (1835)
"Mr. Don, in the above named most valuable and comprehensive work, has adopted a new division of the genus Erica, by his brother, Mr. D. Don. ..."

4. A Grammar of Botany: Illustrative of Artificial, as Well as Natural by Sir James Edward Smith, Henry Muhlenberg, José Francisco Correia da Serra (1822)
"They occupy the same place at New Holland, that the vast genus Erica does ... The partitions of the Capsule are in some of the genus Erica formed from the ..."

5. The American Cyclopædia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1874)
"HEATH, or Heather, the common name of plants of the genus erica, ... The genus erica comprises species of great beauty, even the most humble of them being ..."

6. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"HEATH, or Heather, the common name of plants of the genus erica, ... The genus erica comprises species of great beauty, even the most humble of them being ..."

7. Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse by Edward Step (1897)
"genus Erica ERICA (name classical). Л large genus comprising about four hundred species of rigid, much-branched evergreen shrubs. The leaves are small, ..."

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