Definition of Genus parrotia

1. Noun. One species: iron tree.

Exact synonyms: Parrotia
Generic synonyms: Plant Genus
Group relationships: Family Hamamelidaceae, Hamamelidaceae, Witch-hazel Family
Member holonyms: Iron Tree, Iron-tree, Ironwood, Ironwood Tree

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Parrotia

genus Paramecium
genus Paranthias
genus Paranthropus
genus Parascalops
genus Parasitaxus
genus Parathelypteris
genus Parietaria
genus Paris
genus Parkia
genus Parkinsonia
genus Parmelia
genus Parochetus
genus Paronychia
genus Parophrys
genus Parrotia
genus Parrotiopsis
genus Parthenium
genus Parthenocissus
genus Parula
genus Parus
genus Paspalum
genus Pastinaca
genus Patella
genus Pavo
genus Pavonia
genus Payena

Literary usage of Genus parrotia

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

1. A Manual of Palaeontology for the Use of Students with a General by Henry Alleyne Nicholson, Richard Lydekker (1889)
"... is represented in the European Miocene by species of the existing Asiatic genus Parrotia, and by the extinct ..."

2. Text-book of Geology by Sir Archibald Geikie (1902)
"... alder, oak, beech, chestnut, hornbeam, liquidambar, plane, willow, poplar, laurel, cinnamon, buckthorn, with the Asiatic genus Parrotia, the Australian ..."

3. A Manual of Palæontology, for the Use of Students: For the Use of Students by Henry Alleyne Nicholson, Richard Lydekker (1889)
"... is represented in the European Miocene by species of the existing Asiatic genus Parrotia, and by the extinct ..."

4. The Student's Lyell: A Manual of Elementary Geology by Charles Lyell, John Wesley Judd (1896)
"... Plane, Laurel, Cinnamon, and forms referred to the Asiatic genus Parrotia, and the Australian ..."

5. Professional Paper by Geological Survey (U.S.) (1916)
"The genus Parrotia, which includes a single existing species of northern Persia and the Caucasus, contains 3 species in the Dakota sandstone, ..."

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