Definition of Genus Mahonia

1. Noun. Evergreen shrubs and small trees of North and Central America and Asia.

Exact synonyms: Mahonia
Generic synonyms: Magnoliid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Barberry Family, Berberidaceae, Family Berberidaceae

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Mahonia

genus Macroclemys
genus Macrodactylus
genus Macronectes
genus Macropus
genus Macrothelypteris
genus Macrotis
genus Macrotus
genus Macrotyloma
genus Macrozamia
genus Macrozoarces
genus Madia
genus Madoqua
genus Maeandra
genus Magicicada
genus Magnolia
genus Mahonia (current term)
genus Maia
genus Maianthemum
genus Maja
genus Majorana
genus Makaira
genus Malaclemys
genus Malacosoma
genus Malacothamnus
genus Malaxis
genus Malcolmia
genus Mallotus
genus Malope
genus Malopterurus
genus Malosma

Literary usage of Genus Mahonia

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

1. The Shortest and Most Convenient Route: Lewis and Clark in Context by Robert S. Cox (2004)
"In the end, Bernard's longest-lived legacy was the genus Mahonia, which Thomas Nuttall named after him, but even this fell to mystery and fatality: the name ..."

2. Trees and Shrubs: An Abridgment of the Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum by John Claudius Loudon (1875)
"... as to the mode of growth, foliage, and inflorescence, are so distinct from those of the other, as to induce us to adopt the genus Mahonia. ..."

3. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1878)
"... sometimes ranked as genera; those with simple leaves forming the sub-genus Herberts, and those with pinnate leaves the sub-genus Mahonia, or Ash- leaved ..."

4. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1902)
"... and those with pinnate leaves, the sub-genus Mahonia or Ash-leaved barberry. Tin1 species are low, ornamental shrubs, and native t<> the temperate ..."

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