Definition of Genus Amelanchier

1. Noun. North American deciduous trees or shrubs.

Exact synonyms: Amelanchier
Generic synonyms: Rosid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Family Rosaceae, Rosaceae, Rose Family
Member holonyms: Juneberry, Service Tree, Serviceberry, Shadblow, Shadbush

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Amelanchier

genus Alternanthera
genus Althaea
genus Alyssum
genus Alytes
genus Amanita
genus Amaranthus
genus Amaryllis
genus Amauropelta
genus Amazona
genus Amberboa
genus Ambloplites
genus Amblyrhynchus
genus Ambrosia
genus Ambystoma
genus Ameiurus
genus Amelanchier (current term)
genus Amia
genus Amianthum
genus Ammobium
genus Ammodytes
genus Ammotragus
genus Amoeba
genus Amorpha
genus Amorphophallus
genus Amphibolips
genus Amphicarpa
genus Amphicarpaea
genus Amphioxus
genus Amphiprion
genus Amphisbaena

Literary usage of Genus Amelanchier

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)
"|HE genus Amelanchier occurs in but two forms sufficiently distinct to be regarded as species, namely, the common amelan- chier of Europe, (A. vulgaris,) ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1896)
"Notes on the genus Amelanchier: By NL BRITTON. Specimens illustrating the five eastern species, A. Canadensis, ..."

3. The Tree Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Trees of North America by Julia Ellen Rogers (1905)
"... genus Amelanchier occurs in southern Europe, northern Africa, China and Japan, and in southwestern Asia as well as in eastern and western North America. ..."

4. The Shrubs of Northeastern America by Charles Stedman Newhall (1893)
"Genus Pyrus (Chokeberry, etc.), page TOO. Genus Crataegus in part (Thorns), page 104. genus Amelanchier (Shad-bush), page 108. Itea, page 112. ..."

5. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1907)
"Medicus put it into his genus Amelanchier in 1793. But it has another name. When the son of Linnaeus transferred his father's Mespilus canadensis to the ..."

6. Pennsylvania Trees by Joseph Simon Illick, Pennsylvania Dept. of Forestry (1914)
"SHAD BUSH. Amelanchier canadensis, (Linnaeus) Mendicus. GENUS DESCRIPTION—The genus Amelanchier comprise« about 30 species of email trees and shrubs found ..."

7. Bush-fruits: A Horticultural Monograph of Raspberries, Blackberries by Fred Wallace Card (1898)
"He reports all of these more satisfactory in Iowa than either the eastern United States or European species. The genus Amelanchier, to which the ..."

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