Definition of Genus Medinilla

1. Noun. Tropical Old World ornamental evergreen shrubs having fleshy leaves and large panicles of white pink flowers.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Medinilla

genus Masdevallia
genus Masticophis
genus Mastigoproctus
genus Mastodon
genus Mastotermes
genus Matricaria
genus Matteuccia
genus Matthiola
genus Maxillaria
genus Maxostoma
genus Mayaca
genus Mayetiola
genus Mazama
genus Meconopsis
genus Medicago
genus Medinilla (current term)
genus Megachile
genus Megaderma
genus Megalobatrachus
genus Megalosaurus
genus Megaptera
genus Megatherium
genus Melampodium
genus Melampsora
genus Melanerpes
genus Melanitta
genus Melanogrammus
genus Melanoplus
genus Melanotis
genus Melastoma

Literary usage of Genus Medinilla

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 (1890)
"... typified by the genus Medinilla. It Is distinguished by a berry-like or coriaceous fruit, which breaks open irregularly ; by having the stamens usually ..."

2. Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants by Sir Joseph Paxton (1843)
"One of the principal features in the genus Medinilla, namely, the spur at the back of the anther, is so nearly wanting here, that it only appears in the ..."

3. Paxton's Flower Garden by John Lindley, Joseph Paxton, Thomas Baines (1884)
"... and having the foliage of a holly, with the flowers of a Bird-cherry. MEDINILLA CURTISII. Cultivators who are only acquainted with the genus Medinilla ..."

4. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1855)
"... especially the genus Medinilla: most of them are semi-parasitic trailing plants, and hang in great masses from the trunks of the trees. ..."

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