Definition of Genus Carlina

1. Noun. Genus of Mediterranean thistles.

Exact synonyms: Carlina
Generic synonyms: Asterid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Aster Family, Asteraceae, Compositae, Family Asteraceae, Family Compositae
Member holonyms: Carline Thistle

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Carlina

genus Caranx
genus Carcharhinus
genus Carcharias
genus Carcharodon
genus Cardamine
genus Cardium
genus Carduelis
genus Carduus
genus Caretta
genus Carex
genus Cariama
genus Carica
genus Carissa
genus Carlina (current term)
genus Carnegiea
genus Carpenteria
genus Carphophis
genus Carpinus
genus Carpobrotus
genus Carpocapsa
genus Carpodacus
genus Carthamus
genus Carum
genus Carya
genus Caryocar
genus Caryota
genus Casmerodius

Literary usage of Genus Carlina

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

1. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1867)
"The Carline Thistle forms the genus Carlina, which obtained that name from a tradition that the root of the Common Carline (C. vul- garit) was shown by an ..."

2. Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society by Wernerian Natural History Society, Edinburgh, Wernerian Natural History Society (Edinburgh, Scotland) (1826)
"The genus Carlina agrees in its stigma with Xeranthemum, and with Aste\ma of Brown, in having the rays of its feathery seed-crown united into bundles for a ..."

3. Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Or, Flower-garden Displayed by John Sims (1822)
"The large size and spreading of the persistent, coloured upper squama- of the calyx may be considered .as making a near approach to the genus CARLINA. ..."

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