Definition of Genus Betula

1. Noun. A genus of trees of the family Betulaceae (such as birches).


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Betula

genus Begonia
genus Belamcanda
genus Bellis
genus Bemisia
genus Bennettitis
genus Benzoin
genus Berberis
genus Bergenia
genus Beroe
genus Berteroa
genus Bertholletia
genus Bessera
genus Besseya
genus Beta
genus Bettongia
genus Betula (current term)
genus Bibos
genus Bidens
genus Bignonia
genus Biscutella
genus Bison
genus Bitis
genus Blaberus
genus Blandfordia
genus Blarina
genus Blastocladia
genus Blastomyces
genus Blatta
genus Blattella
genus Blechnum

Literary usage of Genus Betula

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

1. Psyche: A Journal of Entomology by Cambridge Entomological Club (1890)
"My attention was first drawn to the number of insects which feed upon plants of the genus Betula when I set out to make a collection illustrating the ..."

2. Forestry in Minnesota by Samuel Bowdlear Green, Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota (1902)
"See genus Betula. Properties of wood.—Light, strong, hard, tough and very close grained, but not durable. It is light brown tinged with red. with thick ..."

3. The Tree Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Trees of North America by Julia Ellen Rogers (1905)
"There are twenty-eight known species of the genus Betula .distributed over the Northern Hemisphere, and a fugitive species ..."

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