Definition of Genus Encephalartos

1. Noun. Genus of arborescent African cycads; sometimes classified in family Cycadaceae.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Encephalartos

genus Elettaria
genus Eleusine
genus Eleutherodactylus
genus Eliomys
genus Elodea
genus Elops
genus Elsholtzia
genus Elymus
genus Emberiza
genus Embothrium
genus Emilia
genus Emmanthe
genus Empetrum
genus Encelia
genus Enceliopsis
genus Encephalartos (current term)
genus Encyclia
genus Endamoeba
genus Engelmannia
genus Engraulis
genus Enhydra
genus Ensete
genus Ensis
genus Entandrophragma
genus Entelea
genus Enterobius
genus Enterolobium
genus Entoloma
genus Entomophthora
genus Eoraptor

Literary usage of Genus Encephalartos

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

1. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1898)
"... genus Encephalartos. In 1895" I called attention to the unusual form of the ... which is usually regarded as characteristic of the genus. Encephalartos ..."

2. Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society by Royal Horticultural Society (Great Britain). (1893)
"The genus Encephalartos is peculiar to Africa, chiefly in the south, but some species are found within the Tropics. In it the scales are peltate, ..."

3. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign (1867)
"The recent genus tb which these fruits are most nearly related is the South African genus Encephalartos. Associated with the cones at Brook Point are found ..."

4. The Useful plants of the island of Guam: With an Introductory Account of the by William Edwin Safford (1905)
"... plants of the genus Encephalartos yield the "caffre-bread" of Africa; l>'nx>n finii produces the "cabeza de chamal" of Mexico; in Central America, ..."

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