Definition of Genus Serratula

1. Noun. Genus of Old World perennial herbs with spirally arranged toothed leaves.

Exact synonyms: Serratula
Generic synonyms: Asterid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Aster Family, Asteraceae, Compositae, Family Asteraceae, Family Compositae
Member holonyms: Sawwort, Serratula Tinctoria

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Serratula

genus Senecio
genus Senna
genus Sepia
genus Septobasidium
genus Sequoia
genus Sequoiadendron
genus Serenoa
genus Sericocarpus
genus Serinus
genus Seriola
genus Seriphidium
genus Seriphus
genus Serranus
genus Serrasalmus
genus Serratia
genus Serratula (current term)
genus Sertularia
genus Sesamum
genus Sesbania
genus Seseli
genus Setaria
genus Setophaga
genus Shigella
genus Shorea
genus Shortia
genus Sialia
genus Sialis
genus Sida
genus Sidalcea
genus Sideritis

Literary usage of Genus Serratula

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

1. The Annals of Philosophy by Richard Phillips, E W Brayley (1814)
"... paper on the genus serratula was read. He described 18 species. He described, likewise, about 14 species of a new genus, distinguished by the name of ..."

2. Annals of Philosophy, Or, Magazine of Chemistry, Mineralogy, Mechanics by Thomas Thomson (1814)
"... paper on the genus serratula was read. He described 18 species. He described, likewise, about 14 species of a new genus, distinguished by the name of ..."

3. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1829)
"There is no occasion, as one is advised at Seo, to spend the night on the mountain. The road up is • The genus Serratula has been of late much divided, ..."

4. An Introduction to Systematic and Physiological Botany by Thomas Nuttall (1827)
"Related to the Thistle, through the medium of the very proximate genus Serratula, is that of Vernonia, peculiarly American. Most of the species, ..."

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