Definition of Genus vernonia

1. Noun. Genus of New World tropical herbs or shrubs with terminal cymose heads of tubular flowers.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Vernonia

genus Valerianella
genus Vallisneria
genus Vanda
genus Vanellus
genus Vanessa
genus Vangueria
genus Vanilla
genus Varanus
genus Vedalia
genus Velociraptor
genus Venus
genus Veratrum
genus Verbascum
genus Verbena
genus Verbesina
genus Vernonia
genus Veronica
genus Verticillium
genus Vesicaria
genus Vespa
genus Vespertilio
genus Vespula
genus Vibrio
genus Viburnum
genus Vicia
genus Vicugna
genus Vidua
genus Vigna
genus Viminaria
genus Vinca

Literary usage of Genus vernonia

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

1. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1918)
"The genus Vernonia occurs in both the Eastern and Western Hemispheres, over a wide range of latitude and under almost every conceivable condition of ..."

2. The Chicago Medical Journal and Examiner (1884)
"Medical properties: Astringent, styptic, anodyne, vermifuge, pectoral, diuretic. genus vernonia (Ironweed). V. Noveboracensis (Common Ironweed); ..."

3. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1877)
"In the genus Vernonia, one of the largest of the Composite order, Vernonia Anthelmintica, common in waste places throughout India, furnishes from its seeds ..."

4. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1906)
"... Gleason, "The genus vernonia in the Bahamas"; Underwood, "American Ferns — VI, Species Added to the Flora of the United States from 1900 to 1905. ..."

5. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1913)
"Dr. HA Gleason, of the University of Michigan, spent the month of January at the New York Botanical Garden studying the genus Vernonia and other subjects. ..."

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