Definition of Genus Leontodon

1. Noun. Hawkbit.

Exact synonyms: Leontodon
Generic synonyms: Asterid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Aster Family, Asteraceae, Compositae, Family Asteraceae, Family Compositae
Member holonyms: Hawkbit

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Leontodon

genus Leccinum
genus Ledum
genus Leiopelma
genus Leiophyllum
genus Leipoa
genus Leishmania
genus Leitneria
genus Lemaireocereus
genus Lemna
genus Lemur
genus Lens
genus Lentinus
genus Leonotis
genus Leontideus
genus Leontocebus
genus Leontodon (current term)
genus Leontopodium
genus Leonurus
genus Lepas
genus Lepechinia
genus Lepidium
genus Lepidobotrys
genus Lepidochelys
genus Lepidocybium
genus Lepidothamnus
genus Lepiota
genus Lepisma
genus Lepisosteus
genus Lepomis
genus Leptarrhena

Literary usage of Genus Leontodon

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

1. An Introduction to Systematic and Physiological Botany by Thomas Nuttall (1827)
"No more familiar example first offers itself for our examination than the common Dandelion, of the very small genus Leontodon ; the common calyx of which is ..."

2. A Reader in Botany: Selected and Adapted from Well-known Authors by Jane Hancox Newell (1893)
"In later works we find the genus Leontodon, including the " fall Dandelion " (L. autumnale), but not the true Dandelion, which now appears in ..."

3. An Analytical Dictionary of the English Language, in which the Words are by David Booth (1836)
"DANDELION (corrupted from the French dent de lion, Lion's-tooth) is the English name of the genus LEONTODON, a Greek compound having the same signification. ..."

4. The Phytologist: A Popular Botanical Miscellany edited by George Luxford, Edward Newman (1851)
"Mr. Ball on the genus Leontodon. Index to the Records of Localities in the ' Botanical Gazette,' Vol. ii. Contents of' Hooker's Journal of Botany] No. ..."

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