Definition of Genus Aletris

1. Noun. Small genus of bitter-rooted herbs of eastern North America and Asia; sometimes placed in family Melanthiaceae.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Aletris

genus Albizzia
genus Albuca
genus Albugo
genus Albula
genus Alca
genus Alcea
genus Alcedo
genus Alcelaphus
genus Alces
genus Aldrovanda
genus Alectis
genus Alectoria
genus Alectoris
genus Alectura
genus Alepisaurus
genus Aletris (current term)
genus Aleurites
genus Aleyrodes
genus Algeripithecus
genus Alisma
genus Allamanda
genus Alliaria
genus Alligator
genus Allionia
genus Allium
genus Allosaurus
genus Alnus
genus Alocasia
genus Aloe
genus Alopecurus

Literary usage of Genus Aletris

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

1. Materia Medica and Special Therapeutics of the New Remedies by Edwin Moses Hale (1897)
"The genus Aletris takes its name from a Greek word, which signifies " a slave who grinds corn." The name is applied in allusion to the apparent mealiness ..."

2. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1911)
"In those days of broadly drawn generic lines, Thunberg without hesitation referred his plant to the Linnaean genus Aletris, under the specific name of ..."

3. The Natural History Review: A Quarterly Journal of Biological Science by Armagh Natural History and Philosophical Society, Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society, Cork Scientific and Literary Society, Cuvierian Society of Cork, Dublin University Zoological and Botanical Association, Literary and Scientific Instit (1854)
"... and by Hooker and Strachey after him, has American and Japanese genus Aletris, formerly referred doubtfully to ..."

4. A Supplement to the Imperial Dictionary, English, Technological, and by John Ogilvie (1855)
"[Ляг. и».] STA'TU QUO, instead of STATU QUO. STAR'-GRASS, n.[add.] A plant of the genus Callitriche, and one also of the genus Aletris. STAT'UTE, n. [add. ..."

5. American Medical Botany: Being a Collection of the Native Medicinal Plants by Jacob Bigelow (1817)
"The genus Aletris has its corolla tubular, six cleft, wrinkled, persistent; stamens inserted into the base of the segments ; style triangular, ..."

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