Definition of Genus Tagetes

1. Noun. Marigolds.

Exact synonyms: Tageteste
Generic synonyms: Asterid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Aster Family, Asteraceae, Compositae, Family Asteraceae, Family Compositae
Member holonyms: Marigold

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Tagetes

genus Synaptomys
genus Synchytrium
genus Synercus
genus Syngnathus
genus Syngonium
genus Syringa
genus Syrrhaptes
genus Syzygium
genus Tabernaemontana
genus Tacca
genus Tachyglossus
genus Tachypleus
genus Tadarida
genus Tadorna
genus Taenia
genus Tagetes (current term)
genus Talinum
genus Tamandua
genus Tamarindus
genus Tamarix
genus Tamias
genus Tamiasciurus
genus Tamus
genus Tanacetum
genus Tantilla
genus Tapirus
genus Taraktagenos
genus Taraktogenos
genus Taraxacum
genus Taricha

Literary usage of Genus Tagetes

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

1. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1878)
"Tne genus Tagetes consists of annual and perennial herbaceous plants, natives of the warmer parts of America, although T. crecía, one of those most ..."

2. Flora Domestica, Or, The Portable Flower-garden: With Directions for the by Elizabeth Kent, Leigh Hunt (1831)
"... belong to the genus Tagetes, so named from Tages, the grandson of Jupiter, and son of Genius, who first taught the Etruscans the art of divination. ..."

3. Flora Domestica: Or, The Portable Flower-garden : with Directions for the by Elizabeth Kent (1825)
"... belong to the genus Tagetes, so named from Tages, the grandson of Jupiter, and son of Genius, who first taught the Etruscans ..."

4. The Phrenological Journal and Science of Health (1887)
"1S' he African and French marigolds be- the genus tagetes ; the marigolds i he poets are an entirely distinct genus ..."

5. The International Cyclopedia: A Compendium of Human Knowledge, Rev. with by Selim Hobart Peabody, Charles Francis Richardson (1898)
"The genus tagetes consists of annual and perennial herbaceous plants, natives of the warmer parts of America, although T. erecta, one of those most ..."

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