Definition of Genus butea

1. Noun. Genus of East Indian trees or shrubs: dhak.

Exact synonyms: Butea
Generic synonyms: Rosid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Papilionoideae, Subfamily Papilionoideae
Member holonyms: Butea Frondosa, Butea Monosperma, Dak, Dhak, Palas

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Butea

genus Bucephala
genus Buceros
genus Buchloe
genus Buckleya
genus Buddleia
genus Budorcas
genus Bufo
genus Bulnesia
genus Bumelia
genus Bungarus
genus Buphthalmum
genus Burhinus
genus Burmannia
genus Burmeisteria
genus Bursera
genus Butea
genus Buteo
genus Buxus
genus Cabomba
genus Cacajao
genus Cacalia
genus Cacatua
genus Cacicus
genus Cadra
genus Caenolestes
genus Caesalpinia
genus Caiman
genus Cairina
genus Cajanus

Literary usage of Genus butea

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

1. Medicinal Plants: Being Descriptions with Original Figures of the Principal ...by Robert Bentley, Henry Trimen by Robert Bentley, Henry Trimen (1880)
"genus butea, Roxb* B. & H., Gen., i, p. 533; Baill., Hist. Pl., ii, p. 249. There are 3 species, natives of tropical Asia. 79t Butea frondosa, " Koenig ..."

2. Blight on flowers; or, Figures and descriptions of the insects infesting the by Samuel Hereman (1840)
"CULTURE OF THE genus butea. Three species of this genus are at present known, all natives of the East Indies, very splendid, and bearing pea-shaped flowers, ..."

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