Definition of Genus matthiola

1. Noun. Genus of Old World plants grown as ornamentals.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Matthiola

genus Marasmius
genus Marattia
genus Marchantia
genus Marmota
genus Marrubium
genus Marsilea
genus Martes
genus Martynia
genus Masdevallia
genus Masticophis
genus Mastigoproctus
genus Mastodon
genus Mastotermes
genus Matricaria
genus Matteuccia
genus Matthiola
genus Maxillaria
genus Maxostoma
genus Mayaca
genus Mayetiola
genus Mazama
genus Meconopsis
genus Medicago
genus Medinilla
genus Megachile
genus Megaderma
genus Megalobatrachus
genus Megalosaurus
genus Megaptera
genus Megatherium

Literary usage of Genus matthiola

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

1. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication by Charles Darwin (1899)
"Turning now to the genus Matthiola. The pollen of one kind of stock sometimes affects the colour of the seeds of another kind, used as the mother-plant I ..."

2. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication by Charles Darwin (1887)
"Turning now to the genus Matthiola. The pollen of one kind of stock sometimes affects the colour of the seeds of another kind, used as the mother-plant. ..."

3. Botanical names for English readers by Randal Hibbert Alcock (1876)
"He freely attacks the opinions of both older and contemporaneous writers, perhaps especially Fuchs. The genus Matthiola is named in honour of him. ..."

4. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign (1866)
"On a Certain Phenomenon of Hybridism in the genus matthiola." Mr. B. CLARKE, London.—" On the Floral Envelopes ..."

5. Appleton's New Practical Cyclopedia: A New Work of Reference Based Upon the edited by Marcus Benjamin, Arthur Elmore Bostwick, Gerald Van Casteel, George Jotham Hagar (1920)
"Gillyflower (jll'1ï-flow-èr), popular name for the cruciferous plants of the genus Matthiola, called also by the general name of stock or stock gillyflower; ..."

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