Definition of Phyllocladus

1. Noun. Celery pine.

Exact synonyms: Genus Phyllocladus
Generic synonyms: Gymnosperm Genus
Group relationships: Family Phyllocladaceae, Phyllocladaceae
Member holonyms: Celery Pine

Lexicographical Neighbors of Phyllocladus

Phthirius
Phthirus
Phthorimaea
Phthorimaea operculella
Phuket
Phunababa
Phycomycetes group
Phyllidae
Phyllis
Phyllitis
Phyllitis scolopendrium
Phyllium
Phyllocladaceae
Phyllocladus (current term)
Phyllocladus alpinus
Phyllocladus asplenifolius
Phyllocladus trichomanoides
Phyllodoce
Phyllodoce breweri
Phyllodoce caerulea
Phylloporus
Phylloporus boletinoides
Phyllorhynchus
Phylloscopus
Phylloscopus sibilatrix
Phyllostachys
Phyllostachys aurea
Phyllostachys bambusoides

Literary usage of Phyllocladus

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

1. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"VI, Phyllocladus alpinus. Young fruit in longitudinal section; Art aril. ... In Phyllocladus (Fig. 348, VI) the ovules are solitary in the axil of a carpel. ..."

2. Annual Report of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the by Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.), United States General Land Office, United States Dept. of the Interior (1876)
"... is acceptable merely on account of the connection of this vegetable organism with a mass of decayed and broken remains of Conifers. Phyllocladus ..."

3. New Zealand: Her Commerce and Resources by Gildroy W. Griffin (1884)
"The tree producing the bark belongs to the genus Phyllocladus, comprising the trees known as the celery-leaved pines. It belongs to the same section of the ..."

4. The Pinetum: Being a Synopsis of All the Coniferous Plants at Present Known by George Gordon, Robert Glendinning (1858)
"Phyllocladus GLAUCA, Carriere, the Glaucous Phyllocladus. Leaf-formed branchlets, slender, and tapering to the base; of a reddish-green or rusty-brown ..."

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