Definition of Genus morus

1. Noun. Type genus of the Moraceae: mulberries.

Exact synonyms: Morus
Generic synonyms: Dicot Genus, Magnoliopsid Genus
Group relationships: Family Moraceae, Moraceae, Mulberry Family
Member holonyms: Mulberry, Mulberry Tree

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Morus

genus Monarda
genus Monardella
genus Moneses
genus Monilia
genus Monocanthus
genus Monochamus
genus Monodon
genus Monomorium
genus Mononychus
genus Monotropa
genus Monstera
genus Montezuma
genus Montia
genus Morchella
genus Morone
genus Morus
genus Moschus
genus Motacilla
genus Mucor
genus Mucuna
genus Mugil
genus Muhlenbergia
genus Mulloidichthys
genus Mullus
genus Muntiacus
genus Muntingia
genus Mus
genus Musa
genus Musca
genus Muscardinus

Literary usage of Genus morus

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

1. The Trees of America: Native and Foreign, Pictorially and Botanically by Daniel Jay Browne (1846)
"... each ovary is a fleshy and juicy utricle, and is covered by the fleshy and juicy calyx.—Nées Von Esenbeck, Genera. k HE genus Morus embraces deciduous ..."

2. The Book of the Garden by Charles McIntosh (1855)
"... Magnolia, all the hardy species of the genus ; Morus alba ; Mac- lura aurantiaca, in warm situations; ..."

3. The Tree Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Trees of North America by Julia Ellen Rogers (1905)
"Genus MORUS, Linn. Red Mulberry (Morus rubra, Linn.)—Large tree, 60 to 70 feet high, with dense, round head, fibrous roots and milky juice. ..."

4. Sketch of the Evolution of Our Native Fruits by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1898)
"other use than the feeding of silk worms, and the botanical perplexities of the genus Morus, to which these trees belong. For two or three centuries the ..."

5. Forestry in Minnesota by Samuel Bowdlear Green, Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota (1902)
"Genus MORUS. Trees or shrubs with milky sap and alternate, dentate and often lobed leaves. Flowers monoecious or dioecious (rarely polygamous) in axillary ..."

6. Pennsylvania Trees by Joseph Simon Illick, Pennsylvania Dept. of Forestry (1914)
"GENUS DESCRIPTION—The genus Morus comprises about 10 species of wbich number 3 are native to North America and 1 to Pennsylvania. ..."

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