Definition of Genus Rumex

1. Noun. Docks: coarse herbs and shrubs mainly native to north temperate regions.

Exact synonyms: Rumex
Generic synonyms: Dicot Genus, Magnoliopsid Genus
Group relationships: Buckwheat Family, Family Polygonaceae, Polygonaceae
Member holonyms: Dock, Sorrel, Sour Grass

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Rumex

genus Rivulus
genus Robinia
genus Roccella
genus Roccus
genus Rodolia
genus Romneya
genus Roridula
genus Rorippa
genus Rosa
genus Rosellinia
genus Rosmarinus
genus Roystonea
genus Rubia
genus Rubus
genus Rudbeckia
genus Rumex (current term)
genus Rumohra
genus Rupicapra
genus Rupicola
genus Ruptiliocarpon
genus Ruscus
genus Russula
genus Ruta
genus Rutilus
genus Rynchops
genus Rypticus
genus Sabal
genus Sabbatia
genus Sabinea
genus Saccharomyces

Literary usage of Genus Rumex

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

1. Magazine of Natural History by Edward Charlesworth (1830)
"England produces but one plant of the second order, and that formerly belonged to (and by some botanists is still ranged in) the genus .Rumex, of the third ..."

2. Select Extra-tropical Plants, Readily Eligible for Industrial Culture Or by Ferdinand von Mueller (1891)
"This may prove a hint for testing other large species of the extensive genus Rumex in this respect. ..."

3. Familiar Lectures on Botany, Practical, Elementary, and Physiological: With by Lincoln Phelps (1849)
"We here find the genus Rumex, which contains the dock and sorrel ; t Gerard, a very ancient botanist, has the following curious passage. ..."

4. The Book of the Garden by Charles McIntosh (1855)
"There are several species of the genus Rumex that have been or are still cultivated ; and as their uses and culture are so nearly alike, wo shall include ..."

5. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1863-1871), Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1907)
"So far as Mr. Bragg or I have been able to observe, this louse confines its attacks to the genus Rumex. ..."

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