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Definition of Genus Gentiana
1. Noun. Type genus of the Gentianaceae; cosmopolitan genus of herbs nearly cosmopolitan in cool temperate regions; in some classifications includes genera Gentianopsis and Gentianella.
Generic synonyms: Dicot Genus, Magnoliopsid Genus
Group relationships: Family Gentianaceae, Gentian Family, Gentianaceae
Member holonyms: Gentiana Lutea, Great Yellow Gentian, Calathian Violet, Gentiana Pneumonanthe, Marsh Gentian
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Gentiana
Literary usage of Genus Gentiana
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"The common name for species of the genus Gentiana. ... Besides the typical genus,
Gentiana, the other principal genera ore Lisianthus, Swertia, ..."
2. The Fertilisation of Flowers by Hermann Müller, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, Charles Darwin (1883)
"The genus Gentiana splits into two main divisions, in one of which honey is
secreted by the base of the ovary, in the other by the base of the corolla. ..."
3. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1871)
"... of the genus Gentiana nsed in medicine and as a stomachic. ... 2 in Japan, 1
in Arabia, and 68 in the East Indies, viz., 10 of the genus Gentiana, ..."
4. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1838)
"As the various plants comprehended in the genus Gentiana, as defined by Linnaeus,
are extremely different in appearance, and offer great diversities of ..."
5. The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley by Thomas Henry Huxley, Michael Foster (1902)
"Under these circumstances, I see no reason to object to the supposition that
species of the genus Gentiana itself, closely similar to our existing species, ..."
6. The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain), George Long (1838)
"i the genus Gentiana, as defined by Linnaeus, are extremely different in appearance,
and offer great diversities of vtn. ture in their flowers, ..."
7. Systematic Anatomy of the Dicotyledons: A Handbook for Laboratories of Pure by Hans Solereder, Dukinfield Henry Scott (1908)
"... degree of systematic importance which Kusnezow attributes to the occurrence
of oxalate of lime in the mesophyll in the genus Gentiana ; according to him ..."
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