Definition of Crateva

1. Noun. Tropical genus of small trees or shrubs.

Exact synonyms: Genus Crateva
Generic synonyms: Dilleniid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Caper Family, Capparidaceae, Family Capparidaceae

Lexicographical Neighbors of Crateva

Crataegus biltmoreana
Crataegus calpodendron
Crataegus coccinea
Crataegus coccinea mollis
Crataegus crus-galli
Crataegus laevigata
Crataegus marshallii
Crataegus mollis
Crataegus monogyna
Crataegus oxyacantha
Crataegus oxycantha
Crataegus pedicellata
Crataegus tomentosa
Crater
Crater Lake National Park
Crateva (current term)
Crawford
Crax
Crayette
Crayettes
Crayola
Crazy Glue
Crazy Horse
Cre recombinase
Cream of Wheat
Creation
Creative Commons
Creator
Crecy

Literary usage of Crateva

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

1. Narrative of Travels and Discoveries in Northern and Central Africa: In the by Dixon Denham, Hugh Clapperton, Walter Oudney, Abraham V. Salamé, Robert Brown, Carl Dietrich Eberhard König (1826)
"And it will be difficult to distinguish this African Crateva from a plant which seems to be the most general species of India; except that in the latter, ..."

2. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London by Linnean Society of London (1800)
"... of Crateva. The further examination of the other parts of their ... and, {hewing how far they differ from the Crateva in other important points, ..."

3. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1850)
"Hippocrates therefore in his Epistle to Crateva, an herbalist, gives him this good counsel, that if it were possible, '3 amongst other herbs, he should cut ..."

4. The History, Antiquities, Topography, and Statistics of Eastern India by Robert Montgomery Martin (1838)
"35; but then its affinity to the Crateva Marmelos of ... of which I am now writing, the Kot, or wild Bel, while the Crateva Marmelos is called simply Bel. ..."

5. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes by Robert Burton, William Otter (1804)
"Hippocrates therefore, in his epistle to Crateva an herbalist, gives him this good counsel, that, if it were possible, c amongst other ..."

6. Narrative of Travels and Discoveries in Northern and Central Africa: In the by Dixon Denham, Hugh Clapperton, Walter Oudney, Abraham V. Salamé, Robert Brown, Carl Dietrich Eberhard König (1826)
"And it will be difficult to distinguish this African Crateva from a plant which seems to be the most general species of India; except that in the latter, ..."

7. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London by Linnean Society of London (1800)
"... of Crateva. The further examination of the other parts of their ... and, {hewing how far they differ from the Crateva in other important points, ..."

8. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1850)
"Hippocrates therefore in his Epistle to Crateva, an herbalist, gives him this good counsel, that if it were possible, '3 amongst other herbs, he should cut ..."

9. The History, Antiquities, Topography, and Statistics of Eastern India by Robert Montgomery Martin (1838)
"35; but then its affinity to the Crateva Marmelos of ... of which I am now writing, the Kot, or wild Bel, while the Crateva Marmelos is called simply Bel. ..."

10. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes by Robert Burton, William Otter (1804)
"Hippocrates therefore, in his epistle to Crateva an herbalist, gives him this good counsel, that, if it were possible, c amongst other ..."

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