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Definition of Genus glyceria
1. Noun. Manna grass.
Generic synonyms: Liliopsid Genus, Monocot Genus
Group relationships: Family Graminaceae, Family Gramineae, Family Poaceae, Graminaceae, Gramineae, Grass Family, Poaceae
Member holonyms: Manna Grass, Sweet Grass
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Literary usage of Genus glyceria
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1. A Practical Treatise on Grasses and Forage Plants: Comprising Their Natural by Charles Louis Flint (1857)
"One or two other species are referred to this genus, glyceria, as the REFLEXED
MEADOW GRASS, {glyceria distans^) found in salt marshes, along the coast, ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1886)
"(2) A book-name for the genus Glyceria.—English Flora. Grass, Sweet Vernal.
Anthoxanthum odoratum, L.—E. Bord. Bot. ..."
3. The Edinburgh Journal of Science by Royal Society of Edinburgh (1826)
"Arundo Phragmites, is made Phragmites vulgo- ris. Molinia of Schrank is taken up
for the Melica cali-ulta. In the genus Glyceria of Brown, these authors not ..."
4. An Arrangement of British Plants: According to the Latest Improvements of by William Withering (1830)
"... at the base of the germen, being scarcely lobed, and the stigmas much divided,
induced Mr. Brown to remove this plant to his genus Glyceria. ..."
5. Seal and Salmon Fisheries and General Resources of Alaska by David Starr Jordan, Henry Wood Elliott, Washburn Maynard, Sheldon Jackson, William Gouverneur Morris, Ivan Petroff, Charles Haskins Townsend, Frederick William True, John J. Brice, Leonhard Stejneger (1898)
"... and polished by the former movements of the seals, and the grass is yellowish-green
in color and of a different genus (Glyceria ..."
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