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Definition of Rhamnus
1. Noun. Type genus of the Rhamnaceae: buckthorns.
Generic synonyms: Dicot Genus, Magnoliopsid Genus
Group relationships: Buckthorn Family, Family Rhamnaceae, Rhamnaceae
Member holonyms: Buckthorn
Definition of Rhamnus
1. n. A genus of shrubs and small trees; buckthorn. The California Rhamnus Purshianus and the European R. catharticus are used in medicine. The latter is used for hedges.
Definition of Rhamnus
1. a thorny tree or shrub [n -ES]
Medical Definition of Rhamnus
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Rhamnus
Literary usage of Rhamnus
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)
"The fruit of the rhamnus ziziphus is employed throughout the southern or temperate
parts of Europe, in the manufacture of ji/jubes. ..."
2. Hortus Kewensis; Or, A Catalogue of the Plants Cultivated in the Royal by William Aiton (1811)
"Teneriffe rhamnus. Nat. 'of the Island of Teneriffe. Mr. Francis Masson. Introd.
... Pubescent rhamnus, or Bahama Red-wood. Nat. of the Bahama Islands. ..."
3. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine, Taylor and Francis (1854)
"With this object I procured, through the kindness of Prof. Balfour, a sufficient
number of the buds of several species of rhamnus, viz. ..."
4. Greece: Pictorial, Descriptive, and Historical by Christopher Wordsworth (1844)
"Beneath them, at some distance, was the Sea: on its shore, was the city of rhamnus,
one of the strongest and most important ..."
5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1886)
"(Lancet, Oct. 10, 1885), an account of a case of poisoning from taking the berries
of the black alder (rhamnus frangula), the bark of which is now so ..."
6. Greece: Pictorial, Descriptive, and Historical by Christopher Wordsworth (1844)
"... the inhabitants of rhamnus had advanced both in wealth and architectural skill,
that then they thought fit to erect another temple of a more magnificent ..."
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