Definition of Genus Alisma

1. Noun. Small genus of aquatic or semiaquatic plants.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Alisma

genus Alca
genus Alcea
genus Alcedo
genus Alcelaphus
genus Alces
genus Aldrovanda
genus Alectis
genus Alectoria
genus Alectoris
genus Alectura
genus Alepisaurus
genus Aletris
genus Aleurites
genus Aleyrodes
genus Algeripithecus
genus Alisma (current term)
genus Allamanda
genus Alliaria
genus Alligator
genus Allionia
genus Allium
genus Allosaurus
genus Alnus
genus Alocasia
genus Aloe
genus Alopecurus
genus Alopex
genus Alopius
genus Alosa
genus Alouatta

Literary usage of Genus Alisma

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

1. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1907)
"GEORGE RUSSELL SHAW, Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Plain, Mass. THE genus Alisma IN NORTH DAKOTA (WITH ONE FIGURE) As the basis for this investigation I have ..."

2. Rhodora by New England Botanical Club (1903)
"... the genus Alisma is confined to its more typical species. The marked difference in the fruit will be readily apparent if the reader will examine figures ..."

3. The Chicago Medical Journal and Examiner (1884)
"2 genera, 2 species : genus Alisma (Water Plantain). A. plantago, var. Americana. Medical properties : Leaves—vesicant, diuretic, ..."

4. Reports Dealing with the Systematic Geology and Paleontology of Maryland by Maryland Geological Survey (1911)
"... proposed for forms with a distinctly stated relationship to the modern genus Alisma. A considerable number of fossil species from a large number of ..."

5. Muhlenbergia: A Journal of Botany by Amos Arthur Heller (1907)
"... is changed to A. arcuatum lanceolatum (vide J. L,unell, The genus Alisma in North Dakota, in Botanical Gazette, 43: 213. 1907). ..."

6. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...by George Edwin Rines, Frederick Converse Beach by George Edwin Rines, Frederick Converse Beach (1912)
"Water-molds. See FUNGI. Water-ouzel. See OUZEL. Water-plane. See WATERS, UNDERGROUND. Water-plantain, an aquatic or marsh herb of the genus Alisma, ..."

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