Definition of Genus Phalaris

1. Noun. A genus of grasses with broad leaves and a dense spike of flowers.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Phalaris

genus Petromyzon
genus Petroselinum
genus Petteria
genus Petunia
genus Peziza
genus Pezophaps
genus Phacelia
genus Phacochoerus
genus Phaethon
genus Phaius
genus Phalacrocorax
genus Phalaenopsis
genus Phalaenoptilus
genus Phalanger
genus Phalangium
genus Phalaris (current term)
genus Phalaropus
genus Phallus
genus Pharomacrus
genus Phascogale
genus Phascolarctos
genus Phaseolus
genus Phasianus
genus Phegopteris
genus Phellodendron
genus Phenacomys
genus Philadelphus
genus Philaenus
genus Phillyrea
genus Philodendron

Literary usage of Genus Phalaris

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

1. Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse by Edward Step (1897)
"genus Phalaris PHALARIS (the old Greek name). A genus of about ten species of grasses, of which only two are in cultivation. The inflorescence is a panicle, ..."

2. The Phytologist: A Popular Botanical Miscellany. edited by George Luxford, Edward Newman (1848)
"... placed by Lin- neus under the genus Phalaris. The two grasses resemble each other in their peculiarly inflated sheaths or bases of the leaves, ..."

3. Essay on the Theory of the Earth by Georges Cuvier, Robert Jameson, Samuel Latham Mitchill (1818)
"... and more rarely fragments of ferns, and of plants allied to the genus phalaris. Amongst these fresh-water productions, we meet with various fossil ..."

4. Illustrations of British Ornithology by Prideaux John Selby (1833)
"Nearly allied to this genus, and intermediate between it and the Auks, is the genus Phalaris of TEMMINCK. containing several species which were also ..."

5. The Farmer's Encyclopædia, and Dictionary of Rural Affairs: Embracing All by Cuthbert William Johnson (1844)
"The variety of the genus Phalaris called picta, from its striped leaves, is found in gardens and yards as an ornamental plant. From its tendency to strike ..."

6. A Systematic Arrangement of British Plants: With an Easy Introduction to the by William Withering (1801)
"... the florets are egg-spear-shaped and the calyx not lopped, on which account it is now referred to the genus Phalaris. ..."

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