Definition of Nageia

1. Noun. Small genus of Asian evergreen trees having columnar crowns and distinguished by leaves lacking a midrib; eastern Asia including India and Philippines and New Guinea.

Exact synonyms: Genus Nageia
Generic synonyms: Gymnosperm Genus
Group relationships: Family Podocarpaceae, Podocarpaceae, Podocarpus Family
Member holonyms: Nageia Nagi, Nagi

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nageia

Naffziger
Naffziger operation
Naffziger syndrome
Nafpaktos
Nag Hammadi
Nag Hammadi Library
Naga
Nagaland
Nagano
Nagaraj
Nagari
Nagari script
Nagasaki
Nagavali
Nageia
Nageia nagi
Nagel
Nagel's test
Nagele
Nagele obliquity
Nageli
Nagelian
Nageotte cells
Nagios
Nagorno-Karabakh
Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic

Literary usage of Nageia

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

1. Select Extra-tropical Plants, Readily Eligible for Industrial Culture Or by Ferdinand von Mueller (1895)
"Select Plants for Industrial Culture and nageia (Podocarpus) ... nageia (Podocarpus) elata, R. Brown. East-Australia to 35° S. A fine timber-tree, ..."

2. Comparative Anatomy of the Vegetative Organs of the Phanerogams and Ferns by Anton Bary (1884)
"... Dacrydium, Podocarpus (excepting the section nageia), and Tsuga with exception of T. Douglasii Carr.—there is one constant re<in-passage between the ..."

3. Veitch's Manual of the Coniferae: Containing a General Review of the Order by Adolphus Henry Kent, James Veitch & Sons (1900)
"In 1788 the German botanist, Gaertner, gave it generic rank as nageia ... Podocarpus nageia has been assiduously cultivated by the Japanese from time ..."

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